Patti Duncan is an American academic and author, and a Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs and a variety of graduate and doctor ...

. Duncan's main focus is "transnational feminisms, women of color feminisms, feminist media studies, feminist motherhood studies, queer studies, and critical mixed race studies".

Education

Patti Duncan completed her Bachelor of the Arts degree at

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college be ...

and she completed both her Master of Arts and PhD in Women's Studies at

Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...

Teaching career

While completing her MA and PhD at Emory University, she worked as a graduate instructor and eventually a visiting assistant professor at the Institute for Women's Studies within Emory University. After graduating, she worked as a visiting researcher in Seoul, South Korea at

Ewha Woman's University Ewha Womans University () is a private women's research university in Seoul, South Korea. It was originally founded as Ewha Haktang on May 31, 1886, by missionary Mary F. Scranton. Currently, Ewha Womans University is one of the world's largest ...

. Duncan 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 in the Caribbean and

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...

. In 2008 Duncan became an associate professor at Oregon State University. 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 Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

in 2015.

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 Feminism is aimed at defining, establishing, and defending a state of equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for women. It has had a massive influence on American politics. Feminism in the United States is often divided chron ...

must recognize how Asian American women have resisted oppression in their lives. In 2009, Duncan co-produced ''Finding Face,'' a documentary that follows Tat Marina, who was attacked with acid in Cambodia because of her gender. In 2014, Duncan co-edited ''Mothering in East Asian Communities: Politics and Practices'' that brings together many authors from different backgrounds to investigate experiences of

East Asian East Asia is a geocultural region of Asia. It includes China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan, plus two special administrative regions of China, Hong Kong and Macau. The economies of Economy of China, China, Economy of Ja ...

motherhood in the US and Canada. In 2018, she co-edited ''Women's Lives Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia'' that analyzes transnational and

postcolonial Postcolonialism (also post-colonial theory) is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic consequences of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and extractivism, exploitation of colonized pe ...

issues that hinder the success of women and girls globally. In 2016, Duncan became the editor of ''

Feminist Formations ''Feminist Formations'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1988 as the ''NWSA Journal'' (also known as the ''National Women's Studies Association Journal''); the name was changed beginning with the Spring 2010 issue. It publishes i ...

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References

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