• AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
• AMERICAN LITERATURE
• SOUTHERN LITERATURE
• SOUTHERN STUDIES
• WILLIAM FAULKNER

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.