Joseph Wayne Reed

Background

Reed, Joseph Wayne was born on May 31, 1932 in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. Son of Joseph Wayne and Gertrude (Cain) Reed.

Education

Bachelor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1954. Master of Arts, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1961.

Career

Research assistant, Yale Library., 1956-1957; instructor English, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1960-1961; assistant professor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1961-1967; associate professor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1967-1971; professor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, since 1971; department chairman, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1971-1973, 75-76, 85-86; Professor of English and American studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1987. Visiting lecturer Yale University, New Haven, 1974. Lecturer United States department State and United States Information Service, Canada, India, Nepal, 1974.

Coordinator cultural exchange, New Delhi, Bombay, 1992. Coordinator music and writing workshop University of Virginia, Georgetown University, 1993, others.

Achievements

• Joseph Wayne Reed has been listed as a notable American studies educator, artist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Three American Originals: John Ford, William Faulkner, and Charles Ives

    (Analyzes and compares the careers of the film director, J...)

  • Boswell: Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782

    (It's 1778, Boswell is now aproaching his 40th birthday, m...)

  • American Scenarios: The Uses of Film Genre

    (This wonderful book: American Scenarios: The Uses of Film...)

  • English Biography in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • Boswell: Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-1782 by Joseph W. & Frederick A. Pottle (editors) Reed (1977-08-01)
  • English Biography in the Early Nineteenth Century 1801-1838

Membership

Chairman Wesleyan Sesquicentennial, 1982. Chairman board trustees Yale Library. Associates, 1984-2000, honorary trustee, since 2000.

Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1954-1956, participant Woodstand Point's Writers Composers, Mussoorie, India. Member Elizabethan Club, The Johnsonians (chairman 1988).

Connections

Married Kit Craig, December 10, 1955. Children: Joseph McKean, John Craig, Katherine Hyde Maruyama.

Father:

Joseph Wayne Reed

Mother:

Gertrude (Cain) Reed

Spouse:

Kit Craig

child:

John Craig Reed

child:

Katherine Hyde Maruyama Reed

child:

Joseph McKean Reed