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Marcia Rego

Associate Professor of the Practice of Thompson Writing Program
Thompson Writing Program
Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708-0025
Thompson Writing Program, 109 Art Building, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Towards a Legible Anthropology: Airing our Dirty Laundry · January 7, 2013 Lecture AAA Meeting in Chicago
Towards a Legible Anthropology: Airing Our Dirty Laundry - AAA Meetings · January 7, 2013 Lecture Chicago
The Naked Ethnographer: Participant Observation and Embodied Identities in a Nudist Community · January 28, 2010 Lecture American Anthropological Association, New Orleans
Cape Verde: A Portuguese Disturbed by Crioulo · January 28, 2010 Lecture Atlantic World Literacies Conference, Greensboro, NC
Reformulating Success: Transitioning Duke’s First-Year Students from the Five-Paragraph Theme (panel participant) · January 28, 2009 Lecture North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing, Raleigh, North Carolina
Ethnographic Ethos in the First-Year Writing Classroom · January 28, 2009 Lecture Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Francisco

Service to the Profession


Participant - Faculty Success Program · 2018 Professional Development National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD),
Organized and hosted visit by Dr. Michelle Comstock, Associate Professor at U.C. Denver · January 7, 2013 Event/Organization Administration
Organized and hosted visit by Dr. Charlotte Frost, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee · April 2012 Event/Organization Administration
Organized and hosted visit by Dr. Rebecca S. Nowacek, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Department of English Marquette University · January 28, 2011 Event/Organization Administration

Service to Duke


Participant . Faculty Success Program · 2023 Professional Development National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD),