Biography
Teresa Reed teaches Music Theory and African American music. Her publications include reviews, encyclopedia entries, and articles in Black Music Research Journal, Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, Journal of Religious Thought, Popular Music and Society, and Readings in African American Church Music and Worship. Two of her books–The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music (2002) and The Jazz Life of Dr. Billy Taylor (2013)–won national honors from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. She has been featured on National Public Radio's Curtains at 8 and Jazz Night in America, as well as on the BBC's The Gospel Truth. Her work has been favorably cited and/or reviewed in Vibe, Downbeat Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, New York City Jazz Record, JazzTimes, New York Review of Books, and on NPR. She has lectured nationally and internationally on various aspects of music theory and African American music. She was on the faculty of the University of Tulsa for twenty-five years, where she served as Professor of Music, Director of the African American Studies Certificate, Director of the School of Music, and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She was also an adjunct professor at Phillips Theological Seminary. At the University of Louisville, she served as Dean of the School of Music (2019–2025) and is currently a professor in the UofL School of Music in the Department of Academic and Professional Studies.
Degrees and Certifications
Indiana University Bloomington, 1990-1997
University of Tulsa, 1988-1990
Valparaiso University, 1983-1987