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William R. Kenan Jr. University Professor, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University
Walter Reed is an English teacher by training, an interdisciplinary scholar-explorer by grace of the universities where he has taught and written, and a student of what is called "the history of reading." He is currently a professor of English and comparative literature in Emory's Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts. He has taught at Yale, University of Texas at Austin, and Emory for the past 40 years. He has published books on the romantic hero, the history and theory of the novel (beginning with *Don Quixote* and the Spanish picaresque) and the Bible as literature. Since discovering the writing of Mikhail Bakhtin in the mid-'70s, he says, "I have found continual inspiration and direction in his remarkable interdisciplinary thinking." His most recent work has been in collaboration with a colleague in psychology, studying fictional persons and their presence in actual minds.
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