KRISTIN REED kristin-reed.com

Virginia Commonwealth University Phone: 804.617.5388 1015 Floyd Ave, Room 5184 E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 842015 Richmond, VA 23284-2015

Education

2009 Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Indiana University Dissertation: "The Rhetoric of Grief: Seamus Heaney, Joseph Brodsky, Yves Bonnefoy, and the Modern Elegy." Dissertation Advisor: Prof. David Hertz Minor fields: Russian Literature and Slavic Linguistics, Art History

2000 B.A. English Literature, James Madison University Minor Field: Russian Literature

Professional Positions 2014-present - Curriculum and Textbook Coordinator, Department of Focused Inquiry, Virginia Commonwealth University.

2009-present - Assistant Professor, Department of Focused Inquiry, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Awards

2012 Virginia Commonwealth University Center for Teaching Excellence Grant 2008-09 Louise B. McNutt Dissertation Year Fellowship 2006, 08, 09 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Russian) 2007 Award of Distinction on Doctoral Examinations 2005 Award for Distinguished Teaching, Dept. of Comp. Lit., Indiana University 2004 Gilbert V. Tutungi Award for Masters of Arts Research Project

Interests Arts communities and independent publication Literatures in Russian and English Interdisciplinary curriculum design Conflict and Narrative Higher education and community engagement Incarceration and reentry

Publications

"A Palette of Portents: Rural Portraiture in Seamus Heaney and Pieter Brueghel." ANQ 25.4 (2012): 233-239. Print.

"Versographies, by Dmitri Prigov" [translation and introduction]. Qui Parle 20.2 (2012): 183-197.

“Language and Memory in Nabokov’s ‘Revolution’.” in Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe. Agnieszka Gutthy, ed. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.

Conferences [**denotes service as panel organizer.]

Workshop co-facilitator, “Developing Community-Based Solutions Outside of the Criminal Justice System.” International Conference on Conflict Resolution Education. George Mason University. May 2015.

Co-presenter, “Enhancing Learning Through Interactive Gameplay” Annual Meeting of the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg. February, 2015.

"These Are War Pictures: Virginia Commonwealth University and the Richmond City Jail." Virginia Race Histories and Universities Conference. University of Virginia, Charlottesville. November 2013.

"On Translating Dmitrii Prigov." Annual Meeting of the American Literary Translators Association. Indiana University, Bloomington. Oct. 2013. **

"Translation, Transection, Transformation." Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. University of Toronto, Toronto. Apr. 2013.** [no presentation given; for this session I served as moderator and panel organizer]

"Material Culture, Economic Emancipation, and the Craft of Sonia Delaunay." Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. Brown University, Providence. Mar. 2012.

“Craft and Communion: The Legacy of Hull House.” Annual Meeting of the Nineteenth- Century Studies Association. Asheville, NC. 23 Mar. 2012. **

"Of Men and Mustachios: the Humor of Harmonium." Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, Georgia. 4 Nov. 2011.

"Martin Gardner, Elizabeth Bishop, and 'The Gentleman of Shalott." The Elizabeth Bishop Centenary. The University of King's College, Halifax. 11 June 2011.

"Lucy Morgan's Penland and the Appalachian Craft Revival." Annual Meeting of the Southern American Studies Association, Georgia State University, February 2011.

“Dmitrii Prigov and the Postmodern Parapoetic.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New Orleans, April, 2010.

“Oh Calendar Customs!: Landscape and Memory in Seamus Heaney’s Elegies.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March, 2009.

“The Road to Ethos: Brodsky’s Poet as Theseus.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, California, April, 2008.

“The Power of Babble: Moscow Conceptualism and Postmodern Language Critique.” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages, Chicago, IL, December, 2007. teaching

2009-present - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Focused Inquiry, Virginia Commonwealth Univ. “Memory, History, and Possibility” [UNIV 111 and UNIV 112] “Evolving Ideas” [UNIV 111 and UNIV 112]

2015-2016 – Faculty Fellow, ASPiRE Program, Virginia Commonwealth University “Introduction to Mass Incarceration” [living / learning program]

Spring 2013 – Assistant Professor, Open Minds Program, Virginia Commonwealth University “Writing and Social Change: Poetry” [ENG 366]

2002-2008 - Instructor, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University. “Literary Genres: Medieval Romance” [CMLT 219] “Detective, Mystery, and Horror Literature” [CMLT 217] “Introduction to Science Fiction” [CMLT 216] “Introduction to Popular Culture” [CMLT 151] “Reading the World: Introduction to Comparative Literature” [CMLT 110]

Academic Service

Virginia Commonwealth University 2014-present, VCU General Education Redesign Task Force 2014-present, Focused Inquiry Textbook Committee 2014-present, Focused Inquiry Policy and Procedures Committee 2013-present, Social Justice Faculty Learning Community 2013-present, Gaming and Learning Faculty Learning Community 2011-present, Focused Inquiry Interdisciplinary Studies Committee 2009-present, Focused Inquiry Curriculum Committee 2012-2015, Mentor to a graduate teaching assistant 2010-2014, Undergraduate Engagement Committee 2010-2013, Mentor to undergraduate teaching assistants 2009-2013, Service-Learning Faculty Learning Community 2012, Focused Inquiry Faculty Search Committee 2012, Freshman Summer Reading Program Selection Committee 2011, Boren Scholarship panelist 2010-2011, Fulbright panelist 2009-2010, Collaborative Teaching Faculty Learning Community

Indiana University 2007-2008 Coordinator, Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston Memorial Colloquium 2006-2007 Graduate Affairs Committee, Dept. of Comparative Literature 2003 Graduate Admissions Committee, Dept. of Comparative Literature

Community Service

2015-present, Restorative Facilitation Trainer, Virginia Union University (with the AUJ) 2014-present, Volunteer Mediator and Trainer, Virginia’s Alliance for Unitive Justice (AUJ) 2012-2014, Volunteer, Richmond City Jail School 2011-present, Literacy Tutor and Focus Support Group Facilitator, Offender Aid and Restoration 2012, Women’s Group Facilitator, Offender Aid and Restoration of Richmond 2008-2009, Volunteer, Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project