Ahearn,Barry                            

Albrecht,Thomas                        

Burke,Molly                                

Codr,Dwight                           

Cooley,Peter                                   

Desai,Gaurav                                      

Dinerstein,Joel                             

Edmonds,Dale                                   

Elmwood,Victoria                   

Foster,Ken                                

Foy,Roslyn                             

Gelley,Ora                                         

Goldman,Jonathan                                   Johnson,T.R.                                                       Kaufmann,David        

Koritz,Amy                                            

Kuczynski,Michael                             

Leland,Jacob                                       

Letter,Joe                                          

Lewis,Nghana                                   

Livingston,Judith                          

Mark,Rebecca                                    

Morris,Paula                                         

Munkhoff,Richelle                              

Nair,Supriya                                        

Oldman,Elizabeth                                     

Pizer,Donald                                        

Rothenberg,Molly       

Smith,Felipe                                          

Snare,Gerald                                        

Toulouse,Teresa                         

Travis,Molly           

  Rebecca Mark

Associate Professor of English

Norman Mayer Room 229

Telephone: (504) 862-8176

Fax: (504) 862-8958

E-mail: rebecca@tulane.edu

Rebecca Mark is a literary scholar whose articles, editions, and books, The Dragon’s Blood: Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty’s Fiction and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The South address southern writing and women's fiction, with a special focus on the work and life of Eudora Welty. She is currently completing two books: A Private Address is a study of the fiction of Eudora Welty; Ersatz America is about false histories and how and why the American cultural imagination holds on to and perpetuates these myths. She has shown her performances of Mourning Emmett, and Poems after Katrina in Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Chapel Hill.  She was a founding member of the Deep South Regional Humanities Center at Tulane, and served as Director of Special Projects for two years. In 2005, together with Alferdteen Harrison from Jackson State University, she received the Public Humanities Achievement Award from the Mississippi Humanities Council for her work co-directing the Unsettling Memories, a landmark conference on the civil rights movement that took place in June 2003. She is currently the Interim Executive Director of the Newcomb College Institute.