Patti Duncan

Patti Duncan is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. With a BA, MA, and Phd in Women's Studies, her main focus is "transnational feminisms, women of color feminisms, feminist media studies, feminist motherhood studies, queer studies, and critical mixed race studies".[1] She has traveled the world not only teaching women's studies but researching to further her knowledge in the field. She is also a published author and producer.

Education

Patti Duncan completed her Bachelor of the Arts degree at Vassar College and she completed both her Master of Arts and PhD in Women's Studies at Emory University.[1]

Teaching career

While completing her MA and PhD at Emory University, she worked as a graduate instructor and eventually a traveling assistant professor at the Institute for Women's Studies within Emory University.[2] After graduating, she worked as a visiting researcher in Seoul, South Korea at Ewha Woman's University.[1] She led a travel seminar on gender, migration, and globalization to Mexico in 2007 and in 2008 she taught for the Semester at Sea program where she taught all the way from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia.[1] 2008 is also the year when she became an assistant professor at Oregon State University.[2] She was the co-leader of a seminar on women, gender, and feminist activism to India in 2014 and she taught a seminar on gender and sexuality in Greece in 2015.[1] Essentially, she has taught women's studies to people globally of all different cultures, some who support feminist ideals and other who do not.

Published works

In 2004, Patti Duncan wrote Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech which focuses on the multitude of meanings and silences in Asian American women's writings that support her theory that American feminism must recognize how Asian American women have resisted oppression in their lives.[3] In 2009, she co-produced Finding Face which is a documentary that follows Tat Marina of Cambodia who was attacked with acid based on her gender.[4][5] In 2014, She co-edited Mothering in East Asian Communities: Politics and Practices that brings together many authors from different backgrounds to investigate the old and new traditions of East Asian motherhood in the US and Canada.[6] In 2018, she co-edited Women's Lives Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia that analyzes transnational and postcolonial issues that hinder the success of women and girls globally.[7] In 2016, she became the editor of Feminist Formations, a peer-reviewed academic journal that focuses on gender, feminist, and sexuality studies by experts globally.[8]

References
  1. "Patti Duncan". College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
  2. "CV". Patti Duncan, Ph.D. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
  3. Reviews of Tell This Silence: Yoonmee Chang (2005), American Literature, doi:10.1215/00029831-77-4-858; Patricia P. Chu (2005), "Untold Stories, Old and New", Twentieth Century Literature, JSTOR 20058775; Deborah M. Mix (2005), Modern Fiction Studies, JSTOR 26286362 26286362; Park Mi Sun (2005), Asian Journal of Women's Studies, ProQuest 197686315
  4. Reuy, Rann (March 11, 2009). "'Finding Face' Examines Circumstances of 1999 Acid Attack". Cambodia Daily.
  5. Koehler, Robert (July 4, 2011). "Finding Face: The troubling case of the grossly disfiguring acid attack on Cambodian karaoke star Tat Marina receives emotional and artful treatment in a pic filled with an acute sense of injustice beyond the usual document of human-rights violations". Variety.
  6. Review of Mothering in East Asian Communities: Kate Williams (2015), Journal of the Motherhood Initiative,
  7. Review of Women's Lives Around the World: Roxana-Elisabeta Marinescu (2017), AnALize: Revista de studii feministe,
  8. "About | Feminist Formations". www.feministformations.org. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
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