Faculty Profile
Leigh Anne Duck
English
Associate Professor of English and Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Cinema
C217 Bondurant
University, MS 38677
(662) 915-7439
Joined UM: August 19, 2010
Areas of Expertise
- AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
- AMERICAN LITERATURE
- SOUTHERN LITERATURE
- SOUTHERN STUDIES
- WILLIAM FAULKNER
Brief Bio
Leigh Anne Duck is Associate Professor of English. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of the modern and contemporary U.S. and South Africa; she is interested in modernism, constructions of race and nation, comparative studies, and theories concerning space, narrative, and memory. Her essays have appeared in the Journal of American Folklore, American Literary History, American Literature, and other journals and essay collections. Her book, The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism, was published in 2006, and her new project considers how twenty-first century representations of the U.S. South provide a venue for contemplating the past and future of the larger nation.
Degrees
BA |
English |
Rice University (1989) |
MA |
English |
Southern Methodist University (1993) |
PhD |
Language |
University of Chicago (2000) |
Committee Memberships
CLA Department Equity Committee |
Ad Hoc Committee |
CLA Department Equity Representatives |
Task Force |
GS-Grad Faculty Stat Processes & Policy |
Other Kind of Committee |