T.V. Reed

Biography

T. V. Reed is Professor of English, Director of American Studies, and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies. Reed has held Fulbright and Mellon Fellowships, and has been a Visiting Scholar Rutgers University and at the Center for Cultural Studies of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Reed was until this year an associate editor of American Quarterly, and is currently on the executive council of the American Studies Association.

Publications

Professor Reed is the author of Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements (UC Press, 1992), and Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2005) about various art forms (music, poetry, murals, etc.) as they have helped shape social movement cultures from the 1950s to the 1990s. He is curently completing a book-length manuscript on thirties proletarian novelist Robert Cantwell. Reed has published articles on 20th century U.S. fiction, the non-fiction novel, radical Indians in film, and pop music in Representations and American Literary History, Wicazo Sa Review and Cercles and a bibliographic essay on "Theory and Method in American Studies," in American Studies International, that is also available in a much expanded and updated version online (see below).

Teaching Interests

He teaches classes on cultural theory, contemporary American fiction, the cultural study of social movements and popular culture.

Links

http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/tm/513syl2001.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/573/index.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/440n471/pophome.html