Austin Riede

Austin Riede is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of North Georgia’s College of Arts & Letters. He specializes in British modernism with expertise in World War I literature, film, and science fiction. Dr. Riede holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011). His teaching portfolio includes British Literature II, Victorian Literature, horror and science fiction courses, and literature-film studies. He advises the Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society chapter at UNG Dahlonega.

Research interests focus on transatlantic trauma narratives of WWI, modernist poetics, and intersections between literature and film. He has edited peer-reviewed publications including Transatlantic Shell Shock (2019) and a critical edition of Alan Patrick Herbert’s The Secret Battle (2019). His scholarship appears in journals like Modernism/Modernity and Irish Studies Review, analyzing works by David Jones, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and W.B. Yeats through lenses of labor, masculinity, and national identity.

His publications demonstrate interdisciplinary reach across modernist studies, war literature, and adaptation theory. Teaching responsibilities span foundational composition courses to advanced seminars on horror and science fiction. Professional service includes curriculum development and faculty mentorship roles at both UNG and the University of Illinois.