Maureen Reed

Adjunct Professor in Humanities

department: Exploration and Discovery
office: 436 Miller Center
phone: 503-768-7776
e-mail: reed@lclark.edu

Education:
Ph.D., American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2001
M.A., American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1996
B.A., English and Art/Art History, Rice University, 1994

Maureen Reed began teaching classes at Lewis and Clark College in the fall of 2006. In addition to teaching in the Exploration and Discovery Program, she has taught classes for the Gender Studies program and the History department. She is the author of A Woman's Place: Women Writing New Mexico (University of New Mexico Press, 2005), a collective biography about the challenges facing Anglo, Hispanic, and American Indian authors who boosted cultural traditions despite living non-traditional lives. Her areas of interest in American cultural history include gender, ethnicity, multiculturalism, regionalism, autobiography, fiction, travel writing, and the ongoing question of just what it means to be American, both at home and abroad. Her current project is a memoir about the time she spent living with her family in Regensburg, Germany, where she was a Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies from 2004-2005.