Reid Echols

Assistant Professor


Department

English

Courses Taught
Assistant Professor of English at Temple College

Aug 2020 - Present · Temple, TX

  • American Literature I
  • British Literature II 
  • Composition II
  • Composition I
Education

Ph.D. English The University of Texas at Austin, July 2019
Fields: 20th Century British Literature, Environmental Humanities, Archival Studies

M.A. English The University of Texas at Austin, May 2014
Field: 20th Century Irish Literature & Drama

B.A. University Scholars Baylor University, May 2010
Interdisciplinary Honors Degree, concentrations in Literature, Great Texts, Creative Writing and Philosophy

Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor of Instruction at UT Austin

Aug 2019 - Aug 2020 · Austin, TX

  • Virginia Woolf, “Archiving the Self” (Spring 2020)
  • Reading Poetry, “Poetry in/as Practice” (Spring 2020)
  • Literature and Film, “Coming of Age on Page and Screen” (Fall 2019)
  • Reading Poetry, “Forms, Contexts, Controversies” (Fall 2019)
  • Banned Books and Novel Ideas, “Censorship on Stage” (Fall 2019)
Instructor of Record at UT Austin

Aug 2014 - Aug 2019

  • Honors Texts and Contexts: “Wartime Writing in the Archives” (Spring 2019)
  • “Unhappy Families on Stage, Page, and Screen” (Fall 2018)
  • (Co-taught) Modernism and Literature Seminar, with Dr. Mia Carter (Spring 2017)
  • Research and Writing: Rhetoric of the Wild (Summer 2015)
  • Introduction to Research and Writing (Fall 2014, Spring 2015)
Professional Experience
NEH Scholarly Research Associate at the Harry Ransom Center

Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 · Austin, TX

NEH-funded public humanities grant. Developed, curated, and delivered digital teaching collections and curriculum from PEN International Records Collection for NEH digitization, preservation, and access grant.

    • Curated, designed, and delivered digital teaching collections centered around intellectual freedom, censorship, global refugees, and human rights.
    • Generated metadata and design web platforms for teaching collections employing Dublin Core, controlled vocabularies, ContentDM, Project REVEAL, Mirador, etc.
    • https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/teaching/pen/.
Graduate Associate (Outreach, Reference, & Instruction) at the Harry Ransom Center

Aug 2015 - Aug 2017 · Austin, TX

Competitive 2-year GRA position in reference, instruction, and public services. Taught courses in archival research, provided reference and research assistance for on- and off-site patrons, delivered presentations to students, faculty, and other stakeholders. Completed independent projects in instruction, curriculum, and digital collections.

    • Planned and facilitated sessions in the HRC with UT faculty, VIP guests and authors, and HRC members.
    • Designed and launched Teaching Collections pilot program with Dr. Andrea Gustavson and Dr. Ariel Evans.
    • Developed Teaching Collections and Guides in Environmental Humanities.
    • Collaborated with UT faculty to facilitate, plan, and deliver lectures, instruction, and assignments using special collections at the HRC. Course collaborations included:
      • Literature and Film (March 2016; March 2017; April 2017)
      • Banned Books and Novel Ideas (April 2016; April 2017)
      • Ernest Hemingway (March 2017)
      • T.S. Eliot (April 2017)
      • Decadence and Modernity (April 2017)
      • English Graduate Disciplinary Outcomes (October 2017)
Professional Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
  • “‘A Traveler in Little Things’: Nature, Nostalgia, and Nativism in W. H. Hudson’s English Country Books.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 62 no. 2, 2020.
  • Co-authored with J. Schneider, C. Adams, S. DeBauche, C. McKean, J. Moran & D. Waugh. “Appraising, processing, and providing access to email in contemporary literary archives,” Archives and Manuscripts, 47:3, 305-326, Fall 2019.
  • “‘Still another Judith’: Protest and Performance in Brian Friel’s Film Adaptation of The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne.” Comparative Drama 51:3, Fall 2017.
Other Selected Publications
Professional Presentations
Conference Presentations
  • ‘Gone to Ground’: Ruralism and Resilience in T. H. White’s Wartime Writing.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Toronto, CA [online] (Jan 2021).
  • Chair and Convenor, Special Session Panel: “Environmental Genres: Forms, Histories, Functions.” Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL (January 2019).
  • “In Search of England: Interwar Petroculture’s Invented Traditions.” Petrocultures Conference: Glasgow, UK (August 2018).
  • “‘To begin with, a city’: London and bodies politic in the wartime films of Dylan Thomas.” Literary London Society Conference: London, UK (July 2018).
  • “Notes Against the ‘Urbanization of Mind’: T. S. Eliot, The Criterion, and Interwar Ruralism.” British Association for Modernist Studies: Birmingham, UK (July 2017)
  • “Staging London: Metropolitan Visions in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.” Literary London Society conference: London, UK (July 2016)
  • “Pageant Ecologies: Virginia Woolf, Natural History, and English Heritage.” Virginia Woolf Society conference: Leeds, UK (June 2016)
  • “’Still Another Judith’: Performing Resistance in Brian Friel’s Film Adaptation of The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne.” International Associations for the Study of Irish Literature Conference: York, UK (June 2015)
  • “Addressing Absence: R. S. Thomas and the Poetics of Prayer.” South Central MLA Conference: Austin, TX (October 2014).
  • “We Had Made Ourselves Anew’: Narrative and Flux in V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival.” British Associations for Modernist Studies Conference: London, UK (July 2014).
  • “From Omphalos to Labyrinth: Renegotiating Place and Identity in Ciaran Carson’s For All We Know.” American Centers for Irish Studies/Canadian Irish Studies Conference: Dublin, Ireland (June 2014)
  • “Brian Friel: Epistemologies of the Local.” European Federation of Associations and Centers for Irish Studies Conference: Galway, Ireland (June 2013)
Awards
Research & Travel Grants
  • University of Exeter International Research Grant (Aug 2018)
  • Huntington Library Research Fellow (May 2018)
  • Harry Ransom Center Dissertation Research Fellow (Nov 2017)
  • Maureen Decherd Dissertation Excellence Fellow (2017-2019)
  • Departmental Excellence Fellowship, UT English Department (2018)
  • UT Austin Graduate School Travel/Professsional Development Grants (2013-2018)
Writing Prizes & Awards
  • Outstanding Dissertation Prize, UT English Dept. (Jan 2020)
  • Literary London Society President’s Award (June 2019)
  • Outstanding M.A. Thesis Prize, UT English Department (May 2014)
  • Academy of American Poets Prize, Baylor University (2008, 2009)