Beverly J. Reed, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Communications

Tel.: (630) 942-4218
Fax.: (630) 942-3711
Room: IC 3098
e-mail: reedbe@cod.edu

Areas of Research Interest:
• Developmental Composition
• Visual Theory
• Feminist Theory & Women's Literature

Recent Courses Taught:
• Developmental Writing
• Sexuality & Literature
• Visual & Media Studies

Current Projects:
• Role of the visual in developmental writing pedagogy
• Visual/verbal representations of racialized bodies in American illustrated magazines

Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books:
"Exhibiting the Fair Sex: Massachusetts Magazine and the Bodily Order of the American Woman," Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America. Eds. Mark Kamrath & Sharon M. Harris. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2005.

"Textbook Rhetoric: Basic Writing and the Dynamics of Text Selection." Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio, TX, March 2004.
"Pop Patriotism: British Butchers and the American Identity." SCSECS Conference, Fort Worth, TX, March 2003.
"Examining the White Negro: Eighteenth-Century 'Cures' for Blackness." One Nation Community Outreach Conference, Stephen F. Austin State University, April 2002.

Education:
Ph.D. English, Purdue University
M.A. English, Cal Poly State University
B.A. English, Cal Poly State University