Marcia Rego, Associate Professor of the Practice of Thompson Writing Program

Please note: Marcia has left the "Center for Latin American Caribbean Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Courses taught:

W305S/DANCE302S/THEATRST283S/MUSIC305S Writing about Performance

ETHICS 390S Field Ethics (for DukeImmerse)

W101 The Craft of Ethnography

W101 Embodying Social Meaning                                                                            

Postdoctoral Seminar in Teaching Writing (co-taught) – Thompson Writing Program

CULANTH 290S Anthropology and Social Change

W101 Translating the Culture Shock: Beyond Intercultural (Mis)Understanding                          

CULANTH 180S The Anthropology of Health and Illness                                                                               

CULANTH 94 Introduction to CulturalAnthropology                                                                                           

W70 Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing  

CULANTH 280S Cannibalism to Anorexia: Anthropology of Body                                                                

W101 Beyond Genes (in Genome Revolution FOCUS cluster)

W101 Writing Diversity into Human Rights

W101 Writing Cultures and Cultures of Writing

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Thompson Writing Program, 109 Art Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-7062
Email Address:

Office Hours:

by appt.

Education:

Ph.D.	University of California, San Diego	2001
MA	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil	1992
Professional Degree in Clinical Psychology	Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil	1986

Research Interests: Language and Nationalism, Lusophone Africa, Portuguese Colonialism, Ethnographic Writing, Anthropology of Body, Intercultural Contact

Recent Publications

1. Rego, M, Unadvisable, Anthropology and Humanism, vol. 43 no. 1 (June, 2018), pp. 156, American Anthropological Association [doi]
2. Rego, M, The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde Slavery, Language, and Ideology (April, 2015), pp. 216 pages, Lexington Books, ISBN 9780739193785  [abs]
3. Rego, MS, Towards a Legible Anthropology: Airing our Dirty Laundry (2014) (Interactive Installation.) [available here]  [abs]
4. Rego, MS, The Naked Ethnographer, Anthropology Now, vol. 3 no. 2 (September, 2011), Paradigm Publishers, ISSN 1942-8200
5. Rego, MS, Cape Verdean Tongues: Speaking of Nation at Home and Abroad, in Transnational Archipelago: Perspectives on Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora, edited by Batalha, L; Carling, J (2008), Amsterdam University Press, ISBN 978 90 5336 994 8