Regina Duthely-Barbee

Regina Duthely-Barbee serves as Associate Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound, teaching courses in digital rhetoric and writing alongside scholarly seminars examining language-power dynamics.

Her academic credentials include:

• BA from St. John's University (2007)
• MA from CUNY Queens College (2011)
• PhD from St. John's University (2017)

Dr. Duthely-Barbee's research centers on Black feminist rhetorics across 18th-21st century African American discourse, hip-hop pedagogy, and digital composition. She argues that Black women's strategic deployment of (dis)respectability politics in public spheres constitutes a liberatory practice, using Black feminist readings of popular culture and digital rhetorics to demonstrate how marginalized voices transform mainstream media through platforms like Twitter and blogs. Her work has been presented at major conferences including CCCC, Thomas R. Watson Conference, and Computers and Writing.

Her publications reveal consistent focus on how digital counterdiscourses challenge academy-community boundaries, particularly through analyses of spaces like The Crunk Feminist Collective. The 2017 Changing English article and forthcoming Routledge Handbook chapter demonstrate her commitment to examining writing and technology as tools for social transformation through Black women's digital practices.

Dr. Duthely-Barbee actively teaches Digital Writing (ENGL 240-A, Fall 2025) and language-power seminars from her Wyatt 335 office, maintaining engagement with real-world applications of rhetorical theory.