Teresa P. Reed
Jacksonville State University------1996 - 2006

curriculum vitae

ADDRESSES

Professional
Department of English, Jacksonville State University, 700 Pelham Road North, Jacksonville, Alabama 36265; 256.782-5456

Email
treed@jsucc.jsu.edu


EDUCATION
  • Ph.D., University of Florida, major areas of study included medieval prose &poetry, literary theory, feminist theory & praxis, May 1996
  • M.A., University of Virginia, concentration in Medieval Studies, 1991
  • A.B., summa cum laude, Birmingham-Southern College, English Major, 1989


PUBLICATIONS

Shadows of the Law: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2003
"Shadows of the Law: Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, Exemplarity and Narrativity" in Mediaevalia, Volume 21.2, Spring 1997
"Mary, the Maiden, and Metonymy in Pearl" in South Atlantic Review, Volume 65.2, Spring 2000
"Overcoming Performance Anxiety: Chaucer Studio Products Reviewed" in Exemplaria, Volume 15.1, Spring 2003

in circulation
"Culture in Utero: Sloane 2463" (essay)

online
Textbook Section Editor: ORB, Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies


DISSERTATION
"Reading Contingencies: Marian Figuration in Middle English Literature," Director: R.A. Shoaf, Alumni Professor of English, University of Florida Department of English


TEACHING INTERESTS
Middle English prose &poetry, feminist theory, cultural studies, narrative theory, literary theory, composition, computerized composition


LANGUAGES
(reading competency)
French (old & modern), Old & Middle English, Latin, German


EMPLOYMENT--courses listed from beginning to advanced

Jacksonville State University--Assistant Professor of English
courses taught:

  • Fall 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006 & Spring 2001 "Freshman Composition," English 101, 2 sections per term
  • Fall 1998 & 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005 "Honors Freshman Composition," English 101h, computer assisted, syllabus available online
  • Spring 1997 through 2000 & 2003, 2005 "Freshman Composition/Writing about Literature," English 102, 2 sections per term in 1997 & 1998; 1998, 1999, & 2000 sections computer assisted, syllabi available online
  • Spring 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 "Honors Freshman Composition/Writing about Literature," English 102h, computer assisted, syllabus available online
  • Fall 1996 through Spring 2000, Fall 2003 & 2005 "Survey of British Literature, Beowulf to Neoclassical Writers," English 301/203
  • May 2004 & Spring 2006 "Survey of British Literature, Romantics to Modern Writers," English 204
  • AY 2000/2001, 2002/2003, 2004/2005, 2006/2007 "Honors Literature: Literature, the Arts, and the Body," English 219 & 220
  • May 2003 "Literary Landscapes: Travel Literature & Travel to Colorado," English 380M
  • Fall 1996, Fall 1998, Spring 2001, Spring 2003, Fall 2005 "Chaucer," English 401/401g, (mixed undergraduate & graduate)
  • May 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006 "Women and Culture: A Study of Feminist Theory" English 421M, May Term class, designed to be taught in four weeks
  • Fall 2003 "History of the English Langauge," English 441/441g (mixed undergraduate & graduate)
  • Spring 2000 & 2005 "Literary Theory" English 452 (mixed undergraduate & graduate)
  • Spring 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2002 "Survey of Middle English Literature" English 564 (graduate)


University of Florida
, Teaching Assistant (all courses designed, taught, & graded independently)
courses taught:

  • Fall 1992 "Argumentative & Expository Writing," English Composition 1101
  • Spring 1993 through Fall 1994, Summer & Fall 1995 "Writing about Literature," English Composition 1102
  • Spring 1995 "Survey of British Literature, Medieval through 1750," English 2012
  • Summer 1996 "Survey of British Medieval Literature (emphasis on romance as a genre)," English 3210


Piedmont Virginia Community College
, Adjunct Faculty
courses taught:

  • Fall 1991 "College Composition" English 111
  • Spring 1992 "Writing about Literature" English 112

University of Virginia, Writing Center Tutor, Academic Years 1989 & 1990

Birmingham-Southern College, Writing Lab Tutor, Falls of 1987 & 1988


SERVICE
Jacksonville State University

  • Chair, Computer Lab Committee--departmental
  • Freshman Composition Textbook Committee--departmental
  • Graduate Program Committee--departmental
  • Honors Committee--departmental
  • Co-chair of "Imagining the Holocaust" writing contest--departmental/community outreach
  • Chair of the English Department Lecture Series--departmental
  • Screening Committee for Assistant Professor positions, Spring 1998; chaired, Spring 2002; spring 2006--departmental
  • Graduate Council--1998-2001
  • Faculty Council--college-wide; member of the Curriculum Committee, 2005-2007
  • Faculty Research Committee
  • Member of Faculty Senate, 2004-2007; Chair of Faculty Welfare Committee, 2004-2005; Senate Vice President 2005-2006; Senate President 2006-2007
  • Member of Task Team for Goal 3, Enhance the Roles of Research and Service, a subcommittee of the Strategic Planning Committee

Southeastern Medieval Association

  • Member, Executive Committee--2002-2005; Nominating Committee chair 2004-2005


HONORS

  • 2006 Dean's Service Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Jacksonville State University
  • 1999 Distinguished Teacher Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Jacksonville State University
  • 1997 Awarded Faculty Development Grant, Jacksonville State University, for travel to the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), Nashville, TN, 25-27 September 1997
  • 1996 Awarded Faculty Development Grant, Jacksonville State University, for travel to the Twenty-second Annual Meeting of SEMA, Waco, TX, 3-6 October 1996
  • 1995 Awarded University of Florida College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dissertation Year Fellowship for Spring 1996 semester
  • 1995 Awarded Bowers Fellowship for Medieval & Renaissance Scholarship
  • 1995 Awarded English Department Grant, University of Florida, for travel to the Twentieth-first Annual Meeting of SEMA, Charleston, SC, 5-7 October 1995
  • 1994 Awarded English Department Grant, University of Florida, for travel to the Twentieth Annual Meeting of SEMA, Arlington, VA, 29 September - 1 October 1994
  • 1993 Awarded English Department Grant for travel to the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of SEMA, New Orleans, LA, 23-25 September 1993
  • 1989 Initiated into Phi Beta Kappa
  • Outstanding English Major Award, Birmingham-Southern College
  • 1989 (Academic Year) President, Sigma Tau Delta, Birmingham-Southern College
  • 1985-1989 Member, Honors Program; Recipient, Presidential Scholarship, Birmingham-Southern College


PAPERS READ

  • "In Thrall to History as Vampire," 33rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Oxford, MS, October 2006
  • "The English Trotula and the Magic Potion of Law," 41st International Medieval Congress, May 2006
  • "Are the Rules Different Here?: A Continued Discussion of Pedagogy, Feminism & Misogyny in the Medievalist's Classroom," organized & ran panel, 32nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Daytona Beach, FL, October 2005
  • "What Difference Does It Make?" Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Charleston, SC, October 2004
  • "The Monstrously Beautiful: Gawain, Ragnell, Launfal, and Tryamour," 29th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Fayetteville, AR, October 2003
  • "Bodies of Crystal: The Middle English Life of Saint Margaret," 36th International Medieval Congress, May 2001
  • "Shadows of the Law: Chaucer's Man of Law and the Anxieties of Collective Social Agency," biennial meeting of
    the New Chaucer Society, London, July 2000
  • "A Reading of the English Trotula," 35th Annual Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2000
  • "The Mothering of Mary and Medieval Church Identity," annual meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language
    Association, Atlanta, GA, November 1999
  • "Cultural Bodies in Medieval Medical Writings about Women," 34th Annual Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 6-9 May 1999
  • "Using Your Own Web Pages To Teach Composition and Literature," Writing Instruction Technology Conference (WIT), Jacksonville, AL, 9 April 1999
  • "Cultural Bodies in Medieval Medical Writings about Women," Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science, Gainesville, FL, 5-8 November 1998
  • "Cultural Bodies in Medieval Medical Writings about Women," Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), Atlanta, GA, 15-17 October 1998
  • "Cultural Bodies in Writings by Medieval Women Mystics," SEMA, Nashville, TN, 25-27 September 1997
  • "Thematic Approaches to Teaching Literature" Writing in Technology Conference, Jacksonville, AL, 11 April 1997
  • "Marian Metonymy and Folds of Signification in Pearl, " SEMA, Waco, TX, 3-6 October 1996
  • "Shadows of the Law: Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, Exemplarity and Narrativity," SEMA, Charleston, SC, 5-7 October 1995
  • "Shadows of the Law: Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, Exemplarity and Narrativity," University of Wyoming Conference on English, Laramie, WY, 20-24 June 1995
  • "The Marian Inflection in Chaucer's Alisoun of Bath," Sixteenth Annual Medieval Forum at Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, 21-22 April 1995
  • "The Marian Inflection in Chaucer's Alisoun of Bath," SEMA, Arlington, VA, 29 September - 1 October 1994
  • "Images of Petrification in Troilus & Criseyde," New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, FL, 10-12 March 1994
  • "Images of the Medusa in Troilus & Criseyde," SEMA, New Orleans, LA, 23-25 September 1993
  • "A Womb with a View: Defining Words, Defining People in 'The Wife's Lament'," SEMA, Birmingham, AL, 26-28 September 1991


CONSULTING
Outside Evaluator for "Technology and Course Design in the Arts and Humanities" (a pilot program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the Associated Colleges of the South), Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL, 5-7 August 1999.


SCHOLARLY & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
The Modern Language Association of America
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2000-2001 President of Medieval Caucus
The Southeastern Medieval Association
New Chaucer Society
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Tau Delta

 

last updated 31 August 2004