Pauline J. Reynolds Ph.D.

Seeing students develop and make a difference motivates Pauline Reynolds as a professor. The source of motivation is the mundane and the magnificent. She finds it in the everyday moments in class where she can see students "get it," as she witnesses students' writing improve, and enjoys their increasing facility in critical engagement. She also finds motivation through the extraordinary moments where she observes a student achieve personal and professional goals such as progressing from a silent student to confident graduation speaker, successfully pursuing dreams of a doctoral education, presenting work at conferences, and leveraging program work into a longed-for career. Rather than her making a difference, it's seeing students make a difference that motivates her.

• Ph.D., higher education, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Master of Music, early music, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Bachelor of Music (Honors), Royal College of Music, London

Bouncing off the interest in her book, Representing 'U', Professor Reynolds co-edited a book with Barbara Tobolowsky for Palgrave Macmillan as part of their Higher Education and Society series titled Anti-intellectual Representations of American Colleges and Universities: Fictional Higher Education. In addition to recent publications focused on specific shows or comic books (Greek and The Jaguar), she has several ongoing major projects examining representations of higher education in a large range of cultural artifacts, including an international collaboration with Emily Henderson from the University of Warwick examining the representations of conferences in novels, an in-depth analysis of higher education in comic books, and representations of faculty in U.S. movies.

• Gender, culture, equity, and change in higher education
• Representation of higher education in popular culture

• Reynolds, P. J., & Durazo-DeMoss, S. (2020). Beauty and her b(r)easts: Monstrosity and college women in The Jaguar (1992). In S. Langsdale & E. Coody (Eds.), Monstrous women in comics. University Press of Mississippi.
• Reynolds, P. J., Mendez, J. P., & Clark-Taylor, A. (2019). "Do you want me to become a social piranha?": Smarts and sexism in college women's representation in the US TV show Greek. NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 11(3), 313–331.
• Reynolds, P. J. (2017). From Superman to Squirrel Girl: Higher education in comic books, 1938–2015. In B. F. Tobolowsky & P. J. Reynolds (Eds.), Anti-intellectual representations of American colleges and universities: Fictional higher education (pp. 33–54). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Reynolds, P. J. (2017). The symbol of the book: Faculty and social values in American films, 1930–1950. In B. F. Tobolowsky & P. J. Reynolds (Eds.), Anti-intellectual representations of American colleges and universities: Fictional higher education (pp. 141–160). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Tobolowsky, B., & Reynolds, P. J. (2017). Concluding thoughts on media representations of higher education: Anti-intellectualism and other themes. In B. F. Tobolowsky & P. J. Reynolds (Eds.), Anti-intellectual representations of American colleges and universities: Fictional higher education (pp. 179–198). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Tobolowsky, B. F., & Reynolds, P. J. (Eds.). (2017). Anti-intellectual representations of American colleges and universities: Fictional higher education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Multidisciplinary Seminar Award, University of Redlands, September 2014–June 2015
• Outstanding Faculty Service Award, 2013–2014
• Raleigh Holmstedt Fellowship, December 2004

• Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)
• Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)