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Peg Downes
Dr. Peg Downes is a campus- and statewide teaching award recipient at UNC Asheville. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literature and linguistics. Dr. Downes twice has chaired UNCA's forty-two-year-old core Humanities Program, twice chaired the Dept. of Literature & Language, and has twice served as the university's Associate Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Her Ph.D. is in interdisciplinary humanities with a dissertation on William Blake; she also has extensive graduate studies (A.B.D.) in medieval British literature.
Dr. Downes is President of the National Association for General & Liberal Studies, and serves on the national advisory boards of the Association for Core Texts & Courses and ACTC's Liberal Arts Institute at St. Mary's College of California. She co-directed (with AAC&U) the Asheville Institute on General Education (1990-2003), and now directs the annual Asheville Institute on Liberal Learning, as well as a new International Consortium on General & Liberal Studies. She frequently consults in the U.S. and abroad on general and liberal education. (Since January she has traveled to Thailand, and to the Republic of Georgia.)
Because of her convictions about the abiding value—for students, their teachers, and administrators—of international conversations concerning the goals and achievements of a liberal education, Dr. Downes's research and publications now focus on coordinating the experience, and the experiment, of general studies liberal education in the West and in the Non-West.
Contact Information
Literature and Language Department
Karpen Hall 203, CPO #2130
UNC Asheville
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
(828) 251-6577
downes@unca.edu
