Department of English

Dr. Reid is author of Redefining Black Film (University of California, 1993), PostNegritude Visual and Literary Culture (SUNY, 1997), and Black Lenses, Black Voices: African American Film Now (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) – a CHOICE Outstanding Title of 2005, editor of Spike Lee’s ‘Do the Right Thing‘ (Cambridge, 1997), African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness (Wayne State, 2019), and co-editor of Le Cinéma noir Américain. Paris: CinémAction, 1988.

Reid has published several essays and book reviews that appear as chapters in James Baldwin in Context, Cours, cours, camarade, le vieux monde est derrière toi—The cinema of Med Hondo, Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’ 3. African Americans and the Black Diaspora, Charles Burnett: Un cineasta incómodo, The Spike Lee Brand, A Study of Documentary Filmmaking, Les minorités dans le cinéma américain, From Black to Schwarz: Cultural Crossovers between African America and Germany, The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought, The Passionate Camera, Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen, The Oxford History of World Cinema, Cinemas of the Black Diaspora, Film Genre Reader II, The Political Companion to American Film, Ex-Iles: Essays on Caribbean Cinema and as articles in such academic journals as Film Quarterly, Black American Literature Forum, Film History, Jump Cut, Wide Angle, Southern Exposure, Research in African Literatures, Criticism, and Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies.

In 1999, he was named a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor. During the Summer of 2006, he was a Fulbright German Studies Seminar Fellow in the “Muslim Minorities: Opportunities and Challenges in West European Societies, German and French Experiences” program. He holds a University of Florida Term Professorship Award for 2019-2022.