CAROL B.DUNCAN
Writer. Professor. Creative.
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Creating at the intersections of scholarship 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 3 decades 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 Poetry) Anthology, Volume II (2022).
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'Sandbox Tree', United Brethren (Moravian) Mission Station, Antigua, 1830. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
“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.”
— Carol B. Duncan, “Story Bones: Reflections on Narrative and Memory”
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