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Ashley Reed

Associate Professor
  • Undergraduate Program Director
  • Department of English
Ashley Reed
405 Shanks Hall
180 Turner Street, NW
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Ashley Reed is an associate professor in the Department of English who studies U.S. literature and religion of the nineteenth century. Her monograph, Heaven’s Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America, reveals how women writers from the 1820s through the 1860s transformed the nineteenth-century public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious identity and action. She has published articles in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, and Digital Humanities Quarterly.

Dr. Reed received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014 and held an Andrew W. Mellow Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities in 2014-15. She is an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Religion and Culture.


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