{"id":11377,"date":"2023-12-14T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/?p=11377"},"modified":"2023-12-14T13:05:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T18:05:13","slug":"through-teaching-and-writing-meghan-duff-strives-to-create-safer-spaces-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/2023\/12\/14\/through-teaching-and-writing-meghan-duff-strives-to-create-safer-spaces-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Through teaching and writing, Meghan Duff strives to create safer spaces to learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"11384\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11384 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan shares a digital version of her book on a large TV while visiting an elementary class in Washington ,D.C. \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1-105x79.jpg 105w, https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1-317x238.jpg 317w, https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1-634x476.jpg 634w, https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1-846x635.jpg 846w, https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1-951x713.jpg 951w, https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1-1268x951.jpg 1268w, https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/machias.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/12\/Meghan-wilson-duff-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meghan Wilson-Duff visits an elementary school class in Washington, D.C. to read their new book. Photo credit: An Open Book Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meghan Wilson Duff spends their time trying to understand people. Coming from a background in clinical psychology, the associate professor at the University of Maine at Machias has found ways to connect with young people through teaching at the school\u2019s tight-knit campus community, and also by writing a children\u2019s book called \u201cHow Are You, Verity?\u201d that focus on the story of a curious, neurodivergent child who loves marine science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duff grew up, as they say, \u201call over New England.\u201d They were born in New Hampshire, grew up in Vermont and went to high school in Massachusetts while regularly visiting family in Maine. As an undergraduate, they studied Russian language and linguistics and physical anthropology and human biology at Emory University. They chanced into the world of clinical psychology after college, when they were offered a job as an aide to a Russian adoptee student at an elementary school in their hometown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey were looking for somebody who spoke Russian and I spoke passable Russian,\u201d Duff says. \u201cThat\u2019s how I ended up in clinical psychology: working with a child who was really struggling because of the cultural and language differences and the challenges of being adopted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After that experience, Duff received a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Antioch University New England. Duff spent years working in clinical psychology as a child and family therapist and an adolescent substance abuse treatment provider. Eventually, they decided to pursue teaching psychology, taking on part-time teaching jobs while they worked in New Hampshire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They applied to an assistant professor position at UMaine Machias\u2019 Psychology and Community Studies Department in 2007 because they were attracted to the multidisciplinary nature of the program and the intimate size of the school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cStudents in our major tend to see the program faculty in multiple classes, and you\u2019re likely to see us helping with a student club or an activity on campus,\u201d Duff says. \u201cI went to a much bigger undergraduate school and even when professors were like \u2018You can come talk to me,\u2019 I was way too intimidated. I take great care to make sure students understand this is what I&#8217;m here for.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because the program isn\u2019t directly affiliated with a graduate school, Duff explains that it is less structured around the American Psychological Association (APA) curriculum and more holistic based on students\u2019 interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe talk a lot more about engaging in broader fields,\u201d Duff says. \u201cYou\u2019re getting this degree, but the field brings so much useful knowledge and skills. One of the things that I really do like about our size is that it allows us to do more service learning so students feel connected to their community and recognize the power of their work to impact other people&#8217;s lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duff primarily teaches classes through the mental health and rehabilitation minor at UMaine and UMaine Machias, but they have taken on classes outside of their department, too. They especially love to teach introductory courses to undergraduates, during what they see as a critical time for college students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt can really make or break their experience,\u201d Duff says. \u201cThey learn they can make mistakes and that their ideas are great, even if they&#8217;re not polished.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In fact, it was through teaching introductory writing classes to undergraduates that Duff stumbled into a whole new interest: writing children\u2019s books. When they started teaching writing at UMaine Machias, they decided to take Maine Writing Project courses through UMaine as part of the National Writing Project, a peer professional development model for teachers of writing. Through the class, they were able to write and critique work with their fellow teachers, which opened up to their idea of not only the pedagogy of writing, but the joy of writing for themself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the class, Duff joined another writing critique group for writers of children\u2019s books, as well as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/queerkidlit.weebly.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Queer Kidlit Mentorship program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to help guide them through the process of developing their story. They say that they wrote a new manuscript every month, but really latched onto one: the story of a neurodivergent child, not unlike Duff themself, trying to navigate the social norms of the question \u201chow are you?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c\u2018How are you?\u2019 is such a weird greeting, but it\u2019s such an important question culturally and linguistically,\u201d Duff laughs. \u201cIn the autistic community, it\u2019s not an uncommon thing to talk about.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The protagonist of Duff\u2019s book <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/pubs\/magination\/how-are-you-verity\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHow Are You, Verity?,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which was released Aug. 22, is like them in more ways than one. In the story, Verity has to deal with the fact that their class trip to the aquarium was canceled. Duff also loved marine science as a child, attending the Acadia Institute for Oceanography for summer camp. They think that, too, was part of what drew them to UMaine Machias, with its strong emphasis on marine science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s about not shaming somebody for not understanding, but allowing them to figure out how it works and allow them to rock out in their area of interest,\u201d Duff says. \u201cFor mental health therapists, I could see them going, \u2018This [book] is a great way of talking about this from a more affirming perspective.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reception to \u201cHow Are You, Verity?\u201d has been overwhelmingly positive. Duff <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3B_RcNtATDE\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">read the book on the American Psychological Association\u2019s YouTube page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and was invited by An Open Book Foundation to conduct readings of their book in Washington, D.C. throughout the fall semester. They also presented a workshop about children\u2019s literature for mental health professionals sponsored by Antioch University New England. Duff now also serves on the National Writing Project\u2019s Writer\u2019s Council, and helps run the Queer Kidlit program where they were once a mentee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact: Marcus Wolf, <\/span><a href=\"mailto:marcus.wolf@maine.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">marcus.wolf@maine.edu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Wilson Duff spends their time trying to understand people. 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