DR. CAROL B.DUNCAN

Writer. Professor. Creative.

Creating at the intersections of Blackness and imagination.

Carol B. Duncan is an accomplished educator, writer, and academic. She is a tenured professor in the Department of Religion & Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she has spent 30 years teaching, chronicling, and writing about the cultural and religious life in the African Diaspora.

Outside of the classroom, Professor Duncan has published several books and is a critically acclaimed creative writer, Her short story “Peeny-Wally,” was nominated for The Journey Prize, appears in the anthology African Ghost Short Stories (Flame Tree/Simon & Schuster, 2024), and received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (and Peoetry) Anthology, Volume II (2022).

“Storying as a teaching method has the capacity to both disrupt and challenge as well as to protect. Storying invites multiple vantage points and critical assessment.

Finding the story bones is a process of meaningful engagement with the past and holds the potential to connect our various worlds of being as teachers, scholars, and learners.”

— Dr Carol B. Duncan, “Story Bones: Reflections on Narrative and Memory”