Panthea Reid

Panthea Reid has been an NEH Fellow, a Fulbright lecturer, an Honorary Fellow of Birkbeck College, University of London, and President of the South Central MLA. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she is Emerita Professor of English at Louisiana State University. She has retired to Princeton, NJ, to work on her biography of Tillie Olsen and to write short fiction and non-fiction.
Reid is the author of Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf (Oxford, 1996) and editor of Conversations with Ellen Douglas (Mississippi, 2000). She has written the Virginia Woolf essay for the new Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Under the name Panthea Reid Broughton, she authored William Faulkner: The Abstract and the Actual (LSU, 1974) and edited The Art of Walker Percy (LSU, 1979). Reid is also the author of numerous literary articles and reviews.