Person Rebecca Mark

Rebecca Mark is the director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership and a professor in the Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. Her research addresses southern cultural studies, particularly representations of memory and trauma, and her books include The Dragon’s Blood: Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty’s Fiction (1994) and Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and Mending of Democracy (2014). Mark’s honors include the Eudora Welty Prize, the Public Humanities Achievement Award from the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Weiss Presidential Fellowship.