She has a Ph.D. in 18th-century German literature and specializes in women’s writing, feminist studies and folk and fairy tales. She is passionate about empowering women, and Christian women in particular, and using fairy tales as part of cultivating a critical, spiritual mind. Dr. Reyes teaches at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX; she attends Church of the Violet Crown, an urban, multicultural church in East Austin that her husband planted; and she is a regular blogger for The Art of Taleh.