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Congratulations to the 2022 Critical Essay and Creative Writing Scholarships winners! Stanley E. Fish Award for Outstanding Work in British Literature:  Kari Tora Larsen, ‘22 This award recognizes outstanding work by an undergraduate enrolled in an English course in British Literature. Award for Most Original Honors Thesis:  Taylor Madison Plett, ‘22 This award recognizes a senior student for writing the most original honors thesis.… read more about 2022 Creative Writing Scholarship Winners »

“It is speech and visibility that give us any political power we have. It is speech and visibility that apparently make us threatening.” Detail from a manuscript essay by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick that was published in 2014 with the title “Censorship & Homophobia,” by Gullotine, New York, NY. The publisher, printer, and binder, Sarah McCarry, discovered the manuscript during her work helping to prepare the collection to come to Duke. The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture is pleased to announce that the… read more about Work and Love are Impossible to Tell Apart: The Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Papers »

Congratulations to Anya Lewis-Meeks on being awarded the 2022 Stephen J. Horne Award for Excellence in Teaching.  Lewis-Meeks, who taught English 110S.03 “Intro to Creative Writing” in the fall semester was selected by Professor Kathy Psomiades, Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), and the advisory committee, Professor Taylor Black and Professor Tsitsi Jaji, based on course evaluations and student nomination. Duke English is excited to award her with this well-earned honor.  Lewis-Meeks listed “building a diverse… read more about Anya Lewis-Meeks, English Ph.D. Candidate is Honored with Teaching Award  »

Duke Today's recent article on new books by Duke faculty members includes English faculty members Mesha Maren "Perpetual West" and Mark Anthony Neal's "Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive" new works. read more about From Ancient Rome to Small-Town Mississippi, New Books by Duke Authors Capture the Imagination This Spring »

During the Spring 2022 semester, Professor Sarah Beckwith was asked to teach one of Duke English's gateway courses. "When the department asked me to teach a 101 class, I knew I wanted to call it ‘Arts of Attention,” stated Professor Beckwith.  We are living in an "attention economy" where our attention is grabbed, bought, and sold. It is a commodity. Our interests, desires, and preferences are data mined for advertising and are funding a new generation of unscrupulous media enterprises. And it is making us all… read more about Professor Beckwith’s English 101S – Arts of Attention »

One important academic lesson of the pandemic was that despite COVID restrictions, many Duke undergraduate students continued to conduct valuable research in collaboration with faculty members. This week, that research was showcased when three juniors were named Faculty Scholars, the university’s highest honor for students presented by faculty. The awards went to Patrick Duan, for research studying historical dynamics of racial and ethnic minorities; Jenny (Yijian) Huang, for developing new statistical methodology for… read more about Three Juniors Selected as Faculty Scholars for Excellence in Research »

Traditionally when one thinks of a college English course, they would not be surprised to study someone who has won a Nobel Prize in Literature (2016) and a Pulitzer Prize (Special Citation, 2008).  What about someone who has won Grammy Awards, Kennedy Center Honors, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and even a Golden Globe for Best Original song? Surely, that would make sense for a Music class, but in English? In Professor Taylor Black's English 290S-01 course, "Bob Dylan," however, you get both and so much more.… read more about Professor Black’s Class Field Trip to Bob Dylan Concert »

Do you read crime novels, find yourself scanning the daily newspaper crime report, or love watching true crime television shows? During the 2022 Spring semester, Professor Michael D'Alessandro introduced an updated version of English 290S-2.01, "American Crime, 1800-1914: Fiction and Film."  The concept for this course developed from research that Professor D'Alessandro conducted about nineteenth-century American crime, including some "eye-opening" statistics that left him horrified. He knew right away that, when the… read more about American Crime: Fiction & Film 1800-1914 Taught by Professor D'Alessandro »

We are excited to announce the winners of the 2022 Creative Writing Contests and the Creative Writing Scholarship awardees. Each year the English Department administers writing contests to recognize fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by English majors and non-major undergraduates. Congratulations to the following students!  Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Fiction Sascha Seinfeld, '23 Download Mint-Ting-A-Ling (pdf - 141.98 KB… read more about 2022 Creative Writing Award Winners »

This spring, Duke English has had the honor of hosting Kenyan author and journalist Peter Kimani as its Blackburn Artist in Residence. His novel, Dance of the Jakaranda – a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" – was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the inaugural Big Book Award in the UK. Kimani currently writes a weekly column for The Standard.  During his time with the department this semester, Kimani  taught two fiction writing courses:    English 221S: Introduction to… read more about Blackburn Artist in Residence, Peter Kimani »

In a Wednesday night ceremony in New York City, the Whiting Foundation announced the honorees of its 2022 Whiting Award, which is presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Awards are $50,000, one of the most substantial awards sums to exist for emerging writers.  read more about Two Triangle Writers Named Recipients of Prestigious Whiting Award (Including English PhD Alum Alexis Pauline Gumbs) »

Almost a decade ago, Grace Li, Trinity ‘17, read Weike Wang’s elegant, witty look at science and the soul, “Chemistry.” “It was the first time I felt like a book had been written just for me. It’s what made me realize I could write deeply personal, honest books, and that maybe other people would read them.”  What Li didn’t realize at the time was that her own literary canvas of the Chinese-American experience, “Portrait of a Thief”, would leap off the page and onto the Netflix screen. Inspired by the true story… read more about Grace Li to speak at Duke’s first Medicine, Literature, & Culture Celebration »