Laval Duncan

Laval Duncan

Associate Professor of Teaching

laval.duncan@wayne.edu

5057 Woodward, Suite 9307.1 Detroit, MI 48202

Department

EnglishAfrican American Studies

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)

Fall Term 2024 (current)

Winter Term 2024

Fall Term 2023

Winter Term 2023

Fall Term 2022

Winter Term 2022