English Department
Established in 2023, the Len Tennenhouse Lecture honors Professor Leonard Tennenhouse, who retired at the end of the 2022 Fall semester. Tennenhouse joined the Duke English faculty in 2008, and during his tenure, he served as department chair, interim DUS, and on numerous departmental and university committees. His areas of research included Shakespeare and American and British literature, which were often the focus of the courses he taught during his decade and a half at Duke.
"Lukács and Baldwin: A Conversation Between Novel Theory and Black Studies"
Brown University Professor Tim Bewes presented "Lukács and Baldwin: A Conversation Between Novel Theory and Black Studies" for the inaugural Len Tennenhouse Lecture. A capacity crowd joined Bewes for his lecture focused on the first of a projected three essay study of "Race and the Novel."