Austin Riede is a professor of English at the University of North Georgia, specializing in British Modernism and World War I literature. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his MA at The Ohio State University. He has published articles on Ford Madox Ford, Vera Brittain, David Jones, W.B. Yeats, and Lewis Grassic Gibbon, among others. He has edited and written an introduction for English novelist A.P. Herbert’s World War I novel The Secret Battle (1919). He has also edited a collection titled Transatlantic Shell Shock: British and American Literatures of World War I Trauma, which explores the different ways in which Great Britain and the USA dealt with the phenomenon of shell shock. He teaches Modern and Contemporary British Literature, Victorian Literature, British Romanticism, and Speculative Fiction.
Austin Riede
Contributions
Conscience, Doubt, and the Militarized Body in Pain
The Military Service Acts of 1916–18, passed under the more general Defense of the Realm Act (1914), implemented conscription throughout England, Scotland, and Wales. Opposition to conscription led to the imprisonment and abuse of thousands of conscientious objectors, who were in an ambiguous legal position, subject to punishment from both military and civil law, but protected by neither.