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Nancy Armstrong CV

Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor Emerita of English
English
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
303 Allen Bldg, Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
CV

Overview


Nancy Armstrong has served as editor of the journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction since 1996 and serves as co-organizer of The Novel Project at Duke, a faculty research seminar. Her scholarship explains how novels imagine a world that can be inhabited (or not) in specific ways by historically and culturally variable readerships. Currently focused on the contemporary novel, she continues to address questions of how modern cultures imagine themselves as a political society: Have, do, or can novels imagine alternative social formations?  What narrative mechanisms make it possible for them to do so?  How do novels presume to change their readers in the process?  How do these "arguments" against the status quo engage political theories that attempt the same feat? Can any such alternative leave the formation we call "the family" intact?

Office Hours


Fall 2023 Semester:

Remote office hours on request. Please email n.b.armstrong@duke.edu to schedule an appointment.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor Emerita of English · 2024 - Present English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Emeritus of English · 2024 - Present English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Education, Training & Certifications


University of Wisconsin, Madison · 1977 Ph.D.
State University of New York, Buffalo · 1966 B.A.