Academic Title:  Professor

Education:
BA, Honours (Carleton University)
MA (Carlton University)
PhD (University of Toronto)

Office: EA3168
Phone: 403.440.6797
Email: sreed@mtroyal.ca

Scholarly Interests:
My research and teaching interests focus on Canadian Literature, especially on how works by Canadian authors reflect the lived experience of disability. I recently published a book on Miriam Toews.

Teaching Statement:
I have a deep love and commitment to the literature I teach, and I try to pass my knowledge and enthusiasm on to my students. In all my courses, I focus on helping students to learn the basics of literary analysis, how to respond to texts, and how to formulate their opinions in writing.

Selected Publications:
Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews. University of Manitoba Press, 2022.

"Being Sita: Gayathri Ramprasad's Shadows in the Sun.” Re/Imagining Depression: Creative Approaches to '"Feeling Bad," edited by Julie Hollenbach and Robin Alex McDonald. Palgrave, 2021, pp. 139-55.

“’Torching the Dusties’: Margaret Atwood’s Cautionary Parable on Ageism and Economics.” Journal of Margaret Atwood Studies, vol. 1, 2019, pp. 3-16.

“Immobilization and Agency: Reflections on Pain Management in Catherine Bush’s Novel Claire’s Head.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 41, no. 2, 2016, pp. 25-40.

Reed, Sabrina. “’Not Yet Alone’: Axes of Exclusion in Wayson Choy’s Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying.” Studies in Canadian Literature vol. 46, no. 1, 2021, pp. 78-95.