Authors and Illustrators Database

John R. (Robert) Reed

Born: 01/24/1938  Duluth, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Parents: John S. Reed; Josephine F. Reed
Spouse: Ruth Yzenbaard (deceased)
Address(es):
Permanent:
17320 Wildemere
Detroit, MI 48221
Permanent:
Wayne State University Office #9307.3
5057 Woodward
Detroit, MI 48202
Contact Information:
Phone: 313-577-8618
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://clasweb.clas.wayne.edu/john-reed

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Dickens Hyperrealism Non Fiction Adult Columbus, OH : Ohio State University 2010
Dear Ruth
- Memorial to wife 		Fiction Adult Online: Ridgeway Press 2002
Dickens and Thackeray : Punishment and Forgiveness Non Fiction Adult Athens, OH : Ohio University Press 1995
Life Sentences Non Fiction Adult Detroit, MI : Wayne State University 1995
Great Lakes Poems Poetry Adult Roseville, MI : Ridgeway Press 1995
Stations of the Cross Michigan, Poetry Adult Roseville, MI : Ridgeway Press 1992
Victorian Will Non Fiction Adult Athens, OH : Ohio University Press 1989
Contemporary Michigan poetry : Poems from the Third Coast
- Included in Anthology 		Poetry Adult Detroit, MI : Wayne State University 1988
Decadent Style Non Fiction Adult Athens, OH : Ohio University Press 1985
Natural History of H. G. Wells Non Fiction Adult Athens, OH : Ohio University Press 1982
A Gallery of Spiders Poetry Adult Princeton, NJ : Ontario Review Press 1980
Victorian Conventions Poetry Adult Athens, OH : Ohio University Press 1975
Hercules Poetry Adult Fredericton, N. B. : Fiddlehead Poetry Books 1973
Perception and Design in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" Non Fiction Adult Athens, OH : Ohio University Press 1970
Old School Ties : The Public Schools in British Literature Non Fiction Adult Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press 1964
- Poems in Poetry East, Michigan Quarterly Review, Paris Review, Sewanee Review, American Scholar, Ontario Review, and Tri Quarterly Poetry Adult
What is the aim or goal of your writing: "In my poetry and fiction I am interested in exploring what might be called the gravity of ordinary experience even when I use a comic approach."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Awards:

Name Date
Guggenheim fellow
- Award received for following years: 1971, 1983 		1971-1983
Leverhulme fellow, University of Warwick 1966-1967
Named Distinguished Professor, Wayne State University
Wayne State University faculty grants

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Michigan Authors, 3rd ed. 1993
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988

Memberships:

Name Date
Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Dickens Society, H. G. Wells Society, and Victorians Institute

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in English University of Rochester Rochester, NY 1959-1963
Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) in Music and English University of Minnesota at Duluth Duluth, MN 1955-1959

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Professor of English Wayne State University Detroit, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1971
Associate Professor of English Wayne State University Detroit, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1968-1971
Assistant Professor of English Wayne State University Detroit, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1965-1968
Assistant Professor of English University of Connecticut Storrs 1964-1965
Instructor University of Cincinnati Cincinnati 1962-1964
instructor University of Warwick Coventry, England

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