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Degrees Held
B.A., 1989, Rice University
M.A., 1993, Southern Methodist University
Ph.D., 2000, The University of Chicago
Academic Summary
Leigh Anne Duck's research focuses on the literature of the twentieth-century U.S. South and South Africa, constructions of race and nation, globalization, and feminist, psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory. She is an affiliate of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change and the Center for Research on Women. (http://crow.memphis.edu).
Courses Taught
3323 American Literature, 1914-present
4323 Southern Literature
4002 Senior Honors Seminar - Psychoanalysis and Literature
4424 Modern British and American Fiction
7006 The English Profession
7391 Modern American Novel
7474 Cultural Texts: Literatures of Apartheid
7478 Textuality
Selected Publications
- "'Go there tuh know there': Zora Neale Hurston and the Chronotope of the Folk," American Literary History 13:2, (Spring 2001): 266-94.
- The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism, (Athens: University of Georgia Press), 2006.
- "'Rebirth of a Nation': Hurston in Haiti," Journal of American Folklore 117.474 (Spring 2004): 127-46.
- "Travel and Transference: V. S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past," Look Away: The U.S. South in New World Studies, edited by Deborah N. Cohn and Jonathan R. Smith (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), 150-70.
