Eric Reeves

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This article is about the Sudan scholar. For the North Carolina state senator, see Eric Miller Reeves.

Dr. Eric Reeves is professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare, Milton, and the history of literary theory.

He has spent the past nine years working as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the United States and internationally. He has testified several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings, and has served as a consultant to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan. Working independently, even while undergoing treatment for leukemia, he has written on all aspects of Sudan's recent history.

He has recently received a generous grant from the Humanity First Initiative of the Omidyar Network to support his research and travel. A collection of his essays on ongoing war and human destruction in Sudan has recently appeared as A Long Day's Dying (Key Publishing, 2007).