Faculty Profiles

Benjamin Alden Reed

Assoc Professor of Instruction — English

Program Faculty — English

Program Faculty — International Affairs

FH 215

phone: (512) 245-7668

br1299@txstate.edu

Texas native.

Surrealism, dream psychology in short fiction, 20th Century modernism.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

Reed, B. A. (2024, September). Nested Skins. Pacifica Literary Review. United States. Retrieved from https://www.pacificareview.com/2024/09/13/nested-skins-by-ben-reed/
Reed, B. A. (2022, July 15). On Raking Up the Dead: How the unusual afterlife of a Prussian servant sheds light on social-media comeuppance in the time of COVID-19. The Missouri Review. Columbia, MO, United States. Retrieved from https://missourireview.com/on-raking-up-the-dead-by-ben-reed/
Reed, B. A. (2021, January). The Interpretation of Dreams. The Adroit Journal. United States: Adroit. Retrieved from https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-thirty-six/ben-reed-prose/
Reed, B. A. (2024, April). A Vicarious Incantation: The Love-Letter Mixtape. Cream City Review. Milwaukee, WI, United States.
Reed, B. A. (2021, May 6). Responding to School Shootings: Six Proposals, and Some Anticipated Drawbacks. Failbetter. Richmond, VA, United States. Retrieved from https://www.failbetter.com/content/responding-school-shootings-six-proposals-and-some-anticipated-drawbacks

Award / Honor Nominee: Finalist, The Second Annual Perkoff Prize, The Missouri Review. July 2022
Award / Honor Nominee: Pushcart Prize, Ghost Parachute (journal). 2017
Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Award for Teaching, at the Senior Lecturer / Lecturer level, College of Liberal Arts. November 20, 2017

Member

IA/TA Hiring Committee

January 1, 2024-December 31, 2024

Member

Sophomore Literature Commitee

January 1, 2024-December 31, 2024

Member

IA/TA Hiring Committee

January 1, 2023-December 31, 2023

Member

Sophomore Literature Commitee

January 1, 2023-December 31, 2023

Member

IA/TA Hiring Committee

January 1, 2022-December 31, 2022