Maureen Reddy
Academic Background
B.A., M.A. Boston College;
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Publications
Books
- Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction. Rutgers University Press, 2002.
- Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics. Rutgers University Press, 2002. Co-editor, with Bonnie TuSmith. Includes co-authored interpretive introduction, section introductions, and conclusion.
- Everyday Acts Against Racism. Seal Press, 1996.
- Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture. Rutgers University Press, 1994.
- Mother Journeys: Feminists Write About Mothering. Spinsters Ink, 1994. Co-editor, with Martha Roth and Amy Sheldon.
- Narrating Mothers: Theorizing Maternal Subjectivities. University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Co-editor, with Brenda O. Daly. Includes co-authored interpretive introduction.
- Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel. Ungar/Recognitions: Mystery Writers Series, Continuum Publishing, 1988.
Articles and Chapters in Books
- “Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle and Metro Eireann.” Irish University Review 35:2 (2005): 374-388.
- “Teaching Wuthering Heights Intertextually: The Example of Here on Earth.” Approaches to Teaching Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, ed. Terri Hasseler and Sue Lonoff. Modern Language Association of America, 2006. 142-148.
- “Women Detectives.” Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction, ed. Martin Priestman. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 191-207.
- “Smashing the Rules of Racial Standing,” Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics, ed. Bonnie TuSmith and Maureen T. Reddy. Rutgers University Press, 2002, 51-61.
- Entries on Kate Fansler, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, and Sexism, The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, ed. Rosemary Herbert. Oxford University Press, 1999. 151, 299, 324, 406-407.
- “Olga Humphrey’s Hyperactive,” Anthology of New One-Act Plays by Women Playwrights, ed. Vanessa Gilbert. Perishable Theater, 1999, 5.
- “The Female Detective: From Nancy Drew to Sue Grafton,” Mystery and Suspense Writers, ed. Robin W. Winks and Maureen Corrigan. Scribner’s, 1998. 1047-1067.
- “Invisibility/Hypervisibility: The Paradox of Normative Whiteness,” Transformations 9.2 (1998): 55-64.
- “Racism,” The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History, ed. Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marissa Navarro, Barbara Smith, and Gloria Steinem. Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 493-496.
- “The Fourth R,” Teaching for Social Justice, ed. William Ayers, Jean Ann Hunt, and Therese Quinn. The New Press, 1998. 169-185.
- “Introduction,” The Mother Knot, Jane Lazarre. Duke University Press, 1997. vii-xiv.
- "Working on Redemption," Everyday Acts Against Racism, ed. Maureen Reddy. Seal Press, 1996. 238-255.
- "Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 159: British Short Fiction Writers, 1800-1880, ed. John R. Greenfield. Gale Research, 1995. 122-133.
- "Race-ing Love," Mother Journeys: Feminists Write About Mothering, ed. Maureen Reddy, Martha Roth, and Amy Sheldon. Spinsters Ink, 1994. 85-92.
- “Maternal Reading: Lazarre and Walker," Narrating Mothers: Theorizing Maternal Subjectivities, ed. Brenda O. Daly and Maureen T. Reddy. University of Tennessee Press, 1991. 222-238.
- "The Feminist Counter-Tradition in Crime," The Cunning Craft, ed. June Frazer and Ronald Walker. Western Illinois University Press, 1990. 174-187.
- "Men, Women, and Manners in Wives and Daughters," Reading and Writing Women's Lives, ed. Bege K. Bowers and Barbara Brothers. UMI Research Press, 1989. 67-85.
- "The Tripled Plot and Center of Sula," Black American Literature Forum 22:1 (1988), 29-45.
- "Gaskell's 'The Grey Woman': A Feminist Palimpsest," The Journal of Narrative Technique 15:2 (1985): 183-193.
- "Female Sexuality in 'The Poor Clare': The Demon in the House," Studies in Short Fiction 21:3 (1984): 259-265.
Honors and Awards
Mary Tucker Thorp College Professor, Rhode Island College, 2005-06
Gustavus Myers Award/Human Rights Area, for Race in the College Classroom, 2004
Reader’s Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association, for Race in the College Classroom, 2002
Koppelman Award for Excellence in Feminist Studies of Popular Culture and American Culture, Popular Culture Assoc. and American Culture Assoc., for Everyday Acts Against Racism, 1997
Minnesota Book Award, for Mother Journeys, 1995
Koppelman Award for Excellence in Feminist Studies of Popular Culture and America Culture, Popular Culture Assoc. and American Culture Assoc., for Mother Journeys, 1995
Pioneer and Trailblazer Award, Rhode Island Commission on Women, 1995
Nominee, Pushcart Prize, for "Race-ing Love," 1995
Nominee, Koppelman Award for Excellence in Feminist Studies of Popular Culture and American Culture, PCA/ACA Women's Caucus, 1992
Nominee, Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa, 1992
Nominee, Edgar Award for best critical or biographical book of 1988, Mystery Writers of America, 1989
Nominee, General Electric Award for Young Writers, non-fiction category, 1988
Rhode Island College Summer Research Stipends, 1988 and 1989
Dissertation Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 1984-85
Ruud Fellowship, English Department, University of Minnesota, 1982
Graduate Fellowship, The Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 1979-80
Research
Race and nation in Irish popular culture, 1988-2002.
Specializations
Victorian Fiction, Black American Literature,
Women's Literature, Literary Theory
Page last updated: Friday, August 28, 2009