Profile
Rebecca Duncan has taught at Meredith since 1997.听 Students who drop by to talk with her will find a nice comfy chair in her office, a place to sink in and take a calming breath.听 They may have to wait a second, though, while she clears away the latest stack of books, magazines and other writing samples that she鈥檚 cued up for 鈥渢eaching moments.鈥澨� On a recent day there was a newspaper photograph of traditional wedding dresses in India 鈥� to share with the Postcolonial Literature class, along with an edgy black and white ad for the Text and Image course.听 Every spring the English majors present a playful skit about their professors, and one year鈥檚 performance included the line, 鈥淗er office is a disaster, but at writing she鈥檚 the master!鈥�
Academic Credentials
Ph.D. in British Literature at the Florida State University
M.A. in English at University of South Florida
M.A. in International Affairs and B.A. in history at Ohio University.听 She has studied and taught in Brazil, Bolivia, and Morocco.
Presentations
鈥淧ower, Gender and Mythmaking in Naomi Alderman鈥檚听The Power鈥� at the Popular Culture Association conference in Washington, D.C. in April 2019.
鈥淚t鈥檚 all Good:听 Priorities and Consensus in General Education.鈥澨� Association of General and Liberal Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2018.
鈥淎sking the Right Questions:听 Student Reflections and Composition.鈥澨� Teaching and Learning Conference, Elon University, Elon, NC, August 2017.
Keynote speaker, Phi Beta Kappa, Wake County Chapter.听 Raleigh, NC, April 2017.
鈥淯topia/Dystopia and the Sense of Place.鈥� 听Session Chair.听 SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Jacksonville, FL, November 2016.
鈥淟andscapes of Fear in the Fiction of Zoila Ellis.鈥� 听SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Jacksonville, FL, November 2016.
鈥淕o with the Flowers.鈥澨� Vision and Voice:听 A Poetry Reading.听 Pittsboro:听 Joyful Jewel, 26 April 2015.
鈥淪ustainability and a Sense of Place:听 Contemplations on Home.鈥澨� TEDx Conference, 缅北禁地,听 Raleigh, NC.听 26 January, 2013.
鈥淣ew Media and Genre.鈥澨� College English Association Conference.听 Richmond, VA, April 2012.
鈥淎ssessing Change: New Standards and Assessments that Reflect Who our Students Are.鈥澨� NCICU Conference on Assessment, Fayetteville, NC, April 2011.
鈥淒esigning the Digital Self.鈥澨� College English Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2009.
鈥淐osmopolitanism and Aural Literacy:听 Shaping New Stories of Culture and Identity.鈥澨� SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, GA, November 2007.
鈥淟ife of Pi as Postmodern Survivor Narrative.鈥澨� SAMLA Convention, Charlotte, NC, November 2006.
鈥淩elief for Research in a Flat World.鈥澨� SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, GA, November 2005.
鈥淩evising the Curse:听 Shrek, Eternal Happiness, and the Ethical Other.鈥澨� SAMLA Convention, Roanoke, VA, November 2004.
鈥淕estures of Kitsch:听 Ellen Olenska as the ur-Cosmo Girl.鈥澨� SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, GA, November 2003.
鈥淚sabella Cannon:听 Gender Pragmatist.鈥澨� Women鈥檚 History Conference, 缅北禁地, Raleigh, NC, March 2002.
鈥淭ext/Image/Space:听 The Art of Document Design.鈥澨� College English Association Convention, Charleston, SC, April 2000.
鈥淐ommunities of Readers, Viewers, Browsers:听 Jane Austen in Film and on the Web.鈥澨� DeBartolo Conference on 18th Century Studies.听 Tampa, FL, February, 1999.
Awards
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Alpha Theta, Mortar Board.
Carlyle Campbell Faculty Award
Howland High School Hall of Fame (Warren, Ohio)
Highest Distinction, MA written exams, University of South Florida
Finalist, World鈥檚 Best Short Short Fiction Contest, Southeast Review
Norma Rose Chair of English
Publications
Scholarly Publications
鈥淩emembering Zoe Kincaid Brockman.鈥澨� North Carolina Literary Review, Forthcoming, 2019.
鈥淵ann Martel.鈥� 听Critical Survey of American Literature, Salem Press and Grey House Press, 2016.
鈥淎nalyzing Nature as a Persuasive Tool in Advertisements.鈥澨�Learned-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies.听 Loren Byrne, ed.听 Zug, Switzerland:听 Springer International Publishing AG, 2016.
Voices of Moroccan Youth.听 Co-edited with Lucy Melbourne听 et. al.听 Rabat, Morocco:听 Marsam, 2011.
鈥淩eading Slumdog Millionaire Across Cultures.鈥澨�Journal of Commonwealth Literature听46 (2): 311-326.听 June 2011.
鈥淔aith and Change in Morocco.鈥� Rev. of听Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman鈥檚 Journey toward Independence, by Leila Abouzeid.听听The Washington Times. 8 January 2010.
鈥淟ife of Pi as Postmodern Survivor Narrative.鈥澨�Mosaic:听 A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies听 41 (2008): 167-83.
鈥淪ense and Sensibility: A Convergence of Readers/Viewers/Browsers.鈥� In Lambdin, Laura and Robert C. Lambdin, eds.听听A Companion to Jane Austen Studies.听 Westport, CN:听 Greenwood, 2000, 1-13.
鈥淎 Critical History of Sense and Sensibility.鈥澨� In Lambdin, Laura and Robert C. Lambdin.听听A Companion to Jane Austen Studies.听 Westport, CN:听 Greenwood, 2000, 14-26.
鈥淰irginia Woolf鈥檚 The Pargiters and the Dialogue of Genre.鈥澨�Genre听28:1, Summer 1996, 171-84.
Creative Publications
Secrets of Gray Lake, a novel.听 Anaphora Press, 2015.
鈥淎nother Jessica.鈥� Short Fiction.听 Pisgah Review, 2017.
鈥淎 Serious Man.鈥� Short Fiction. Southeast Review, 2017.
鈥淥rder in the Game.鈥澨� Short Fiction.听听Mused:听 Bella Online Literary Review.听 Spring 2017.
鈥淲eisel鈥檚 Wisdom.鈥� 听Letter to the Editor. 听News and Observer, July 5, 2016: 听http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article87825557.html
鈥淭he dangers in college textbooks as a business.鈥澨� Op-ed.听听News and Observer, 13 August 2015.
鈥淔ifty Years Later, The Enduring Electricity of the Beatles (yeah,yeah,yeah).鈥澨�News and Observer, 7 February 2014.
鈥淒igging and Drilling in Fracktown, USA鈥澨�The听Huffington Post, 1 November 2013.
鈥淧eople Can Change; Home Should Not.鈥澨�The Huffington Post, 1 January 2013
