T.V. REED

Buchanan Distinguished Professor of American Studies & English T.V. Reed photo

T. V. Reed is the Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Washington State University. Reed teaches classes on cultural theory, on contemporary American fiction, on social movements, and on popular culture. All of Reed's work deals with the relationship between cultural forms and social change. He is the author of Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements (Univ. of California Press)

Reed's most recent book, The Art of Protest (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2005) retells the history of key US social movements from Civil Rights era to the current movement against corporate globalization using cultural forms (music, murals, poetry, drama, etc.) as lenses onto the movements.

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Reed is currently working on a book introducing critical digital culture studies, and on another treating thirties Northwest radical novelist Robert Cantwell. Reed's articles on James Agee and E.L. Doctorow appeared in Representations and American Literary History. He is the author of the most widely used bibliographic essay on "Theory and Method in American Studies," appearing originally in American Studies International, that now available in a much-expanded online version. He has published several acticles recently in the area of interdisciplinary peace studies, focusing on cultural forces within the US and international peace movements. An article on decolonial environmental justice cultural criticism in the work of indigenous author Leslie Silko appeared last year in MELUS, and a piece on the cultural study of social movements will appear next year in the leading European handbook on social movement theory. Two of Reed's articles are available online, including on apartheid and popular music, and on environmental justice ecocriticism.

Reed has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Cultural Studies of the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the JFK Institute for North American Studies in Berlin, Germany, and a Mellon Fellow at Wesleyan University. He was co-chair of the national American Studies Association's conference for 2002, and is currently a member of the ASA's national council. He has long worked for the internationalization of American studies, the effort to undercut the ethnocentrism and cultural imperialism that has historically characterized much work in the field. Reed's been involved in projects with universities in Ukraine, Morocco, the Peoples' Republic of China, and Japan. Reed long has been very active in the use of electronic media in American studies. He served as the first Associate Editor of Electronic Publishing for the American Studies Association's journal, American Quarterly, and has created a number World Wide Web-based resource projects, available at culturalstudies.net: