Adjunct Professor of Humanities

Professional Biography

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.

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.

Current Projects

Her current project is a memoir about the time she spent living with her famiy in Regensburg, Germany, where she was a Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies from 2004-2005.

Publications

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

Academic Credentials

B.A.	English and Art/Art History	Rice Uniersity
M.A.	American Studeis	University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D.	American Studies	University of Texas at Austin