Laval Duncan

Laval Duncan

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• American literary and cultural studies

• African American studies

• Detroit oral history

• Poetry

Research

American and African American Literary & Cultural Studies; Detroit Oral History and Poetry

Education

• B.A., University of Louisville, 1963
• Birkbeck College, University of London
• Ph.D., Harvard, 1973

Awards and grants

Michigan Humanities Council, Humanities Center Working Groups, Educational Development Grant

Selected publications

• Co-Interview with Kathryne Lindberg, “The Continuity of Living for Change: An Interview with Grace Lee Boggs” (Social Text, No. 67 (Summer 2001), 43-73
• "Scene and Life Cycle in Ernest Gaines' Bloodline," Callaloo,Volume I, No. 3 (May 1978), 85-101. Reprinted March 2004 by Thomson-Gale in Short Story Criticism Volume 67 (SSC-67) Hardcover and Online

Courses taught by Laval Duncan

Winter Term 2025 (future)

• AFS5310 - Special Topics in African American Studies
• ENG3140 - American Literature after 1865
• ENG5480 - Topics in African American Literature

Fall Term 2024

• AFS2390 - Introduction to African-American Literature: Writing about Texts
• ENG2390 - Introduction to African-American Literature: Writing about Texts
• ENG3130 - American Literature to 1865

Winter Term 2024

• AFS5310 - Special Topics in African American Studies
• ENG3140 - American Literature after 1865
• ENG5480 - Topics in African American Literature

Fall Term 2023

• AFS2390 - Introduction to African-American Literature: Writing about Texts
• ENG2390 - Introduction to African-American Literature: Writing about Texts
• ENG3130 - American Literature to 1865

Winter Term 2023

• AFS5310 - Special Topics in African American Studies
• ENG3140 - American Literature after 1865
• ENG5480 - Topics in African American Literature

Fall Term 2022

• AFS2390 - Introduction to African-American Literature: Literature and Writing
• ENG2390 - Introduction to African-American Literature: Literature and Writing
• ENG3130 - American Literature to 1865

Winter Term 2022

• AFS2390 - Introduction to African-American Literature: Literature and Writing
• ENG2390 - Introduction to African-American Literature: Literature and Writing
• ENG3130 - American Literature to 1865