Alison Reed

Alison Rose Reed's scholarship examines state power, performance cultures, and social movements. In 2024, Dr. Reed resigned from her tenured position as Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University, where she experienced whistleblower retaliation after protesting the department's gross mistreatment of survivors. While teaching at ODU and Norfolk City Jail in Virginia, she cofounded and directed Humanities Behind Bars. Her critical and creative work appears in GLQ, WOMEN & PERFORMANCE, ABOLITION JOURNAL, FRONTIERS, LATERAL, TEXT AND PERFORMANCE QUARTERLY, CIMARRON REVIEW, and elsewhere. You can read more on her unlikely path out of academia in her Substack newsletter, NAPKIN MANIFESTOS.