PhD Candidate

American Literary Studies

Research areas

20th & 21st Century American Literature, Multi-Ethnic American Literature

Contact Information

Email: breeves2@unm.edu
Office Location: HUM 264

Biography

Brandy Reeves is a PhD Candidate in the American Literary Studies program. She received her B.A. from Salem College and her M.A. in English from North Carolina State University. Her fields of research include 20th and 21st century American literature where her subjects of interest include: multiethnic American literature, studies in the novel, critical race, Marxist, feminist/queer and post/de-colonial studies. She came to UNM with the intent to comparatively analyze Chicana/o and Native/Indigenous American literature with African-American literature.

Brandy has been an instructor with UNM’s Core Writing Program teaching students strategies for academic inquiry and argument in ENGL 1110, 1120, and 2120. She has taught college composition and writing at NCSU as well. She is currently a GA for the Andrew W. Mellon Extending Pathways to Humanities (formally NM Humanities Now!) guiding students through the transfer process to UNM’s English program. She has also received awards from UNM’s Arms Endowed fund and the Center for Regional Studies Graduate Fellowship.