Alana Reid

Associate Director & Associate Professor of Spanish

areid@uca.edu

Irby 207D

(501) 450-5096

Alana Reid (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is an Associate Professor of Spanish. She serves as the Associate Director of the School of Language and Literature.  She joined the UCA faculty in 2009 and has taught a wide variety of courses from elementary Spanish language through graduate courses in Latin American literature. She also teaches classes in English, such as Latinos in the U.S., Latin American Film, and Latin American Women Writers. Her research and teaching interests center primarily on gender and sexuality in 20^th and 21^st century Hispanic culture.  She especially enjoys teaching classes that are interactive and creative with culminating projects such as live performances, student-created films, and collaborative service projects. She has published articles in academic journals such as Letras Femeninas, Hispania and Hispanófila, and is currently working on a book manuscript centering on representations of cross-dressing pirates in Latin American fiction.