People
David Aers
James B. Duke Professor of English
Office: 402 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-5065
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
David Aers works especially on medieval and early modern literature, theology, ecclesiology and politics in England. His publications range from studies of Augustine to studies of early 19th century writing and culture. Publications include: Piers Plowman and Christian Allegory (Arnold 1975);... Full Profile »
Monika Allison
Financial Assistant
Office: 303A Allen Building, Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 277080015
Phone: +1 919 684 4289
James W. Applewhite
Professor Emeritus of English
Office: 308 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-5444
James Applewhite is the author of Seas and Inland Journeys : Landscape and Consciousness from Wordsworth to Roethke (Georgia, 1985) and seven books of poetry, including River Writing: An Eno Journal (Princeton, 1988), and Daytime and Starlight (LSU, 1997). He has... Full Profile »
Nancy Armstrong
Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of English
Office: 304C Allen Bldg, English Dept., Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 668-0314
Office Hours: By appointment
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... Full Profile »
Christina Askounis
Lecturer Emerita of English
Office: Trent Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-3094
Christina Askounis holds a B.A. from Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia and an M.A.from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. Her writing experience encompasses newspaper journalism, television and film scriptwriting, poetry and fiction; her short... Full Profile »
Dominika M Baran
Associate Professor of English
Office: English Department, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-2741
My main research interests lie in the area of language, identity, and migration. I am particularly interested in how migrant identities are formed and enacted through discourse and linguistic practices, such as code-switching and translanguaging. My recent book, Language in Immigrant America,... Full Profile »
Catherine Beaver
Departmental Business Mgr II
Office: 303C Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 277080015
Phone: +1 919 684 2772
Sarah Beckwith
Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of English
Office: 302A Allen, Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708-0680
Phone: (919) 684-2741
Sarah Beckwith works on late medieval religious writing, medieval and early modern drama, and ordinary language philosophy. She is the author of Christ's Body: Identity, Religion and Society in Medieval English Writing (London: Routledge, 1993, pbk 1996); Signifying God: Social Relation and... Full Profile »
Neal C. Bell
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Theater Studies
Office: 03G Page, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90680, Durham, NC 27708-0680
Phone: (919) 660-3380
Carolin Benack
Student
American literature; literary realism and naturalism; history of economics; novel theory; political philosophy
Taylor H Black
Assistant Professor of English
Office: 401 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Diurham, NC 27708
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Taylor Black is a native North Carolinian. He was born in Durham and split his time growing up between Winston-Salem and the Triangle. At 18, he left for New York, where he pursed a BA in Black Studies at Hunter College and later earned a PhD in American Studies at Rutgers University.... Full Profile »
Richard Brodhead
William Preston Few Professor
Office: 207 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27710
Campus Box: Box 90001, Durham, NC 27708-0001
Phone: (919) 684-2424
Like many students of my generation, I had little formal training in American literature, so it was a minor act of personal rebellion in 1970 when I decided, in the middle of my graduate studies, to become an Americanist. It seemed a wonderfully young field, unencumbered by tradition, with little... Full Profile »
Devin Buckley
Student
Interests: Romanticism, Aesthetics, German Idealism, Phenomenology, Philosophical theology
Ronald R. Butters
Professor Emeritus of English
Office: 314 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708-0014
Phone: (919) 684-6561
Ron Butters, who directed the Duke Linguistics Program for many years, publishes chiefly on (1) current American English and (2) linguistics and legal issues, with special interest in trademarks, contracts and statutes, and defamation. He also pursues his interest in language-and-law questions as a... Full Profile »
Sabrina Carr
Analyst, IT
Office: 421 Campus Drive, 304H Allen, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: +1 919 660 9810
Brenna Casey
Instructor* of English
Phone: +1 919 684 2741
Brenna M. Casey is a Lecturer in the Department of English as well as the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Her scholarship traces the transnational currents of race and gender formations through literature and visual culture of the U.S. Her research and teaching are situated at... Full Profile »
Russell Coldicutt
Student
Russell Coldicutt is a third year in Duke’s Ph.D. program in English and works as an editorial assistant for NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. Building from his interest in novel theory, cybernetics, and the philosophy of technology, Russell is beginning a dissertation on the infrastructures of the... Full Profile »
Jessica Covil
Student
Jessica Covil is a second-year PhD student of English at Duke University. Her research currently focuses on literary representations of community, belonging, and “home” in 20th-Century American Literature, and on connections between the poetic and the political, especially within... Full Profile »
Michael F D'Alessandro
Assistant Professor of English
Office: 502 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Office Hours: Mondays 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Michael D’Alessandro holds an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale University and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University. His principal research focuses on American literature and theatre history in the long nineteenth century. Whether studying well-known works of... Full Profile »
Cathy N. Davidson
Ruth F. DeVarney Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies
Office: Box 90403, 114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Bay 5, B196, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90403, Durham, NC 27708-0403
Phone: (919) 684-8471
Cathy Davidson has published numerous books, including Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking, 2011); The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (with David Theo Goldberg, MIT Press, 2010) ; Revolution and... Full Profile »
A Leigh Deneef, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of English
Office: 127 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90068, Durham, NC 27708-0068
Phone: +1 919 681 1559
Kimberley Dimitriadis
Student
kimberley.dimitriadis@duke.edu
Kimberley Bridgette Dimitriadis is a third year in Duke’s Ph.D. program in English. Her research interests include nineteenth-century literature and culture; the history of science and mathematics; and the novel and novel theory. Kimberley has received a M.Phil. from the University of Sydney... Full Profile »
Joseph Donahue
Professor of the Practice in the Department of English
Office: 304B Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-2741
James Draney
Student
20th and 21st century anglophone and American literatures; Marxism; media studies; phenomenology; history of the novel; philosophy and literature
Oliver W Ferguson, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: +1 919 684 2741
Thomas J. Ferraro
Professor of English
Office: 323 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-3718
Office Hours: Fall 2018 Office Hours W, 3:15-4:30; Th, 3:15-4:30; and by apt. 323 Allen Building Duke University Durham NC 27708-0015
Professor Ferraro is an aficionado of the great American stuff--Emily Dickinson, Edward Hopper, the Marx Brothers, and Nina Simone--who writes on literature, film, and the performing arts. He is the author of Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America (NYU, 2005; winner of a 2006... Full Profile »
C Faulkner Fox
Lecturing Fellow of English
Office: 321 Allen Building, Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, English Department, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-2741
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10:30AM-12:30PM in Allen 321
Please see my website (www.faulknerfox.com) for a complete listing of my publications, upcoming course descriptions, teaching evaluations, and more.
Kevin Gallin
Student
Kevin Gallin is a PhD candidate in English at Duke University. His research interests include Global Modernism(s), the Contemporary Anglophone novel, Irish literature, literary cultures, and genre and novel theory. His dissertation project focuses on how and why Modernist narrative strategies... Full Profile »
Astrid Adele Giugni
Lecturing Fellow of English
Office: 114 South Buchanan Boulevard, Bay 9, Room A289, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0014
R. Darren Gobert
Professor of English
Office: 03A Page, Box 90680, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90680, Durham, NC 27708-0680
Phone: (919) 660-6497
Office Hours: Wednesday and Friday, noon to 1:00 p.m. and by appointment
R. Darren Gobert specializes in comparative modern and contemporary Western drama, dramatic and performance theory, and the philosophy of theatre. His publications include The Theatre of Caryl Churchill (Bloomsbury) and The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater... Full Profile »
George D. Gopen
Professor of Practice Emeritus of English
Office: 3415 Stoneybrook Drive, Durham, NC 27705
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 641-1122
N. Katherine Hayles
Professor Emerita of English
Office: 101 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
Phone: (919) 684-4127
Digital Humanities; Electronic Literature; Literature, Science, and Technology; Science Fiction; Critical Theory
Quanta Holden
Web and Communications Specialist
Office: 302 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90017, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: +1 919 684 2203
Karla Holloway
James B. Duke Professor Emerita of English
Office: 304F Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-8993
Karla FC Holloway is James B.Duke Professor of English at Duke University. She also holds appointments in the Law School, Women's Studies and African... Full Profile »
Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Associate Professor of English
Office: 304D Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Jaji is an associate professor of English at Duke University with expertise in African and African American literary and cultural studies, with special interests in music, poetry, and black feminisms. She previously taught at University of Pennsylvania and has received fellowships from the National... Full Profile »
Buford Jones
Associate Professor Emeritus of English
Office: 324 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-3873
Buford Jones is the bibliographer for the Hawthorne Society and supplements annually his basic checklist of Hawthorne scholarship. He has also published articles on Melville, Thoreau, and Poe as well as special studies of Hawthorne. He is currently completing The Great Romances: Hawthorne's... Full Profile »
Christophe Kennedy, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Athletics
Office: 304 Schwartz-Butters, 115 Whitford Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90561, Durham, NC 277080555
Phone: +1 919 668 5702
Ranjana Khanna
Professor of English
Office: 304GH Allen Bldg, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 668-2548
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 1:40 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Ranjana Khanna is Professor of English, Women's Studies, and the Literature Program at Duke University. She works on Anglo- and Francophone Postcolonial theory and literature, and Film, Psychoanalysis, and Feminist theory. She has published widely on transnational feminism, psychoanalysis, and... Full Profile »
Ryan Ku
Postdoctoral Associate
Phone: +1 919 684 2741
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. in Allen 304D.
Tye Landels
Student
European Romanticism; Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment thought; history of subjectivity; ethics and aesthetics; hermeneutics
Catherine Lee
Student
Catherine Ji Won Lee is a PhD candidate in English at Duke University, specializing in British Romanticism with research interests in aesthetics, novel theory, affect theory, and the relationship between literature and science. She holds an MA in English from the University of British Columbia and... Full Profile »
Shirley Li
Student
B.A. Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2013M.S. Ed., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2016
Nathaniel Mackey
Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing
Office: 307 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. and by appointment.
Nathaniel Mackey works in the areas of modern and postmodern literature in the U.S. and the Caribbean, creative writing, poetry and poetics, and the intersection of literature and music. He is the author of several books of poetry, fiction and criticism, most recently Nod House (New Directions,... Full Profile »
Melissa Malouf
Professor of the Practice of English
Office: 303H Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0756
Phone: (919) 682-3119
Office Hours: Wednesday and Friday 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. and by appointment.
Melissa Malouf is Professor of the Practice of English. She teaches courses in creative writing and (mainly) contemporary literature. She is the author of two novels, More Than You Know and It Had to Be You (Avisson Press, 1997) and a collection of stories, No Guarantees (William Morrow, 1990... Full Profile »
Jarvis C McInnis
Assistant Professor of English
Office: 313 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Jarvis C. McInnis holds a BA in English from Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, and a Ph.D. in English & Comparative Literature from Columbia University in the City of New York. Jarvis is an interdisciplinary scholar of African American & African Diaspora literature and... Full Profile »
Robert Edward Mitchell
Marcello Lotti Professor of English
Office: 302A Allen, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 668-2547
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Robert Mitchell's research focuses on relationships between literature and the sciences in the Romantic era, as well as contemporary intersections among information technologies, genetics, and commerce, especially as these have been played out in the legal, literary, and artistic spheres. His most... Full Profile »
Toril Moi
Professor of English
Office: 1316 Campus Drive, 108 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708-0403
Campus Box: Box 90670, 108 Friedl Building, East Campus, Durham, NC 27708-0403
Phone: (919) 668-6407
Toril Moi has three broad areas of interest: feminist theory and women's writing; the intersection of literature, philosophy and aesthetics; and ordinary language philosophy in the tradition of Wittgenstein, Cavell and Austin. Toril Moi also works on theater. In her work on literature and theater... Full Profile »
Michael Valdez Moses
Associate Professor with Tenure
Office: 303G Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-8880
Michael Valdez Moses grew up in Los Angeles and was educated at Harvard, New College, Oxford, and the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Novel and the Globalization of Culture (Oxford UP, 1995), and has edited several collections of critical essays including The Writings of J. M.... Full Profile »
Maryscot Mullins
Graduate Studies Assistant
Office: 316 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90017, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: +1 919 684 5538
Sonia Nayak
Student
My research combines the microeconomic vestiges of colonial capitalism, with a reengagement with psycho-affective pain in literature, or the microaggression, into what I call microcruelty—the interior, psychological and economic effects of repeated, minor cruelties— to help us see the... Full Profile »
Mark Anthony Neal
Professor of English
Office: Science Building, 243F, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0252
Phone: (919) 684-3987
Mark Anthony Neal is Chair of the Department of African & African American Studies and the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE) at Duke University where he offers courses on Black Masculinity, Popular Culture, and Digital Humanities, including... Full Profile »
Robert D Newman
AdjunctProfessor of English
Sasha Panaram
Student
Sasha Panaram is a PhD candidate in English at Duke University, where she studies conditions of belonging, creative expressions of loss, and enactments of fugitivity in black diasporic literature. Her dissertation explores fictional and critical renderings of the Middle Passage by black women in... Full Profile »
Thomas Pfau
Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English
Office: 312 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 681-3098
Office Hours: Mondays 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. & by appointment.
"THOMAS PFAU (PhD 1989, SUNY Buffalo) is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English, with secondary appointments in Germanic Language & Literatures and the Divinity School at Duke University. He has published some forty-five essays on literary and philosophical subjects... Full Profile »
Deborah Pope
Professor Emerita of English
Office: 304 B Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-2899
Deborah Pope has published A Separate Vision: Isolation in Contemporary Women's Poetry (LSU), Ties That Bind: Essays on Mothering and Patriarchy (University of Chicago Press), Fanatic Heart (LSU), Mortal World (LSU) and Falling Out of the Sky. She is currently co-editing a series of writings on... Full Profile »
Joseph A. Porter
Professor in the Department of English
Office: 304J Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-3884
Author of ten books and editor or co-editor of nine others, as well as the New Variorum Othello in progress, of which he is Editor-in-Chief, Joseph A. Porter aka Joe Ashby Porter studied at Harvard (BA, 1964), Pembroke College Oxford (Fulbright Fellowship, 64-65) and UC Berkeley (PhD, 1972). After... Full Profile »
Kathy A. Psomiades
Associate Professor of English
Office: 308 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-5444
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Kathy Psomiades works on Victorian literature and culture. She is author of Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism (Stanford, 1997), and co-editor, with Talia Schaffer of Women and British Aestheticism (Virginia, 1999). She has been the recipient of an NEH fellowship... Full Profile »
Maureen Quilligan
R. Florence Brinkley Professor Emerita of English
Office: 320 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 681-2149
Maureen Quilligan has as a primary field of interest in the Renaissance, with special attention to women and literature. She has published four books: The Language of Allegory: Defining the Genre (1979) Milton's Spenser: The Politics of Reading (1983), The Allegory of Female Authority:... Full Profile »
Claire Ravenscroft
Student
Claire Ravenscroft is a doctoral candidate in the department of English. Her research and teaching interests include energy, environment, contemporary fiction and film. Her dissertation, Fossil Capitalist Realism: Petrofiction, Climate Change and the Endless Twentieth Century, identifies the... Full Profile »
Bradley Rogers
Assistant Professor of English
Bradley Rogers (Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley) is Assistant Professor of Theater Studies and Director of the Duke in London Drama program. His work focuses on musical theatre and on performance theory, with research interests in the relationship between theater, film,... Full Profile »
Cathy Shuman
Lecturing Fellow of English
Office: 324 Allen Building, Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 684-5767
Barbara H. Smith
Braxton Craven Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and English
Office: 9 Towhee Drive, Topsham, ME 04086
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 383-0840
Smith's research has been concerned with literary theory, poetry and poetics, ideas of value and judgment, and intellectual controversies over science and knowledge. Her current work focuses on developments in cognitive science and the philosophy of biology, intellectual issues involving science... Full Profile »
Kevin Spencer
Student
I graduated with a BA (hons) in English and an MA in English from the University of Alberta. I completed a second MA in Theory and Criticism at Western University in London, Ontario, the culmination of which was a thesis called "Swearing: Force and Language." In that thesis, I asked why and how... Full Profile »
Corina M Stan
Associate Professor of English
Office: 311 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90014, Durham, NC 27708-0257
Phone: (919) 684-2741
Office Hours: Thursdays 3-5:00 p.m.
Corina Stan grew up in Romania, studied in Germany, France, and the US, and taught for several years in the Netherlands. Trained as a comparatist, she works at the intersection of literature and the arts, with interests in continental philosophy and the sociology of intellectuals. Her first... Full Profile »
Jessica Stark
Student
Jessica Q. Stark is a PhD Candidate in English at Duke University, where she is studying the presence of community, collaboration, and popular culture across literary genres. Her dissertation project explores the intersections between modern to contemporary poetry and American comic books in... Full Profile »
Victor H. Strandberg
Professor with Tenure
Office: 315 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-3976
Office Hours: Mondays 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. and by appointment.
Victor Strandberg has published The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren (Kentucky, 1977), Religious Psychology in American Literature: The Relevance of William James (Studia Humanitatis, 1981), and A Faulkner Overview: Six Perspectives (Kennikat Press, 1981), together with numerous essays on... Full Profile »
Charlotte S. Sussman
Associate Professor of English
Office: 325 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-2741
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30-4pmFridays 2-4pmSchedule Appointments Here
Leonard Tennenhouse
Professor of English
Office: 304F Allen Bldg, English Department, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-1884
Len Tennenhouse teaches courses in British and American literature that look at earlier formulations of our most deeply held assumptions about who we are, how to live with other people, and what we pursue in the name of happiness. What changes, he asks, do these ideas of the purpose and... Full Profile »
Julie A. Tetel
Professor Emerita of English
Office: 303 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 681-7610
Julie Tetel (Andresen) writes in the field of linguistic historiography, focusing on French, German, and American theories of language from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. She is the author of Linguistics in America 1769-1924: A Critical History (Routledge, 1990, paperback edition... Full Profile »
Patrick Timmis
Student
I am a Ph.D. candidate in English affiliated with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. My research interests include the interplay between theater and Puritanism in early modern England, devotional poetry, and London sermon culture. I previously completed an M.A. at the University of... Full Profile »
Marianna Torgovnick
Professor of English
Office: 302E Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Duke Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-2110
Marianna Torgovnick writes on the novel and novel theory, film, postcolonialism, modernism, and the twentieth century more generally, and especially on contemporary American culture. Her work is broadly interdisciplinary and has been taught in Art History, Anthropology, and Religion courses as well... Full Profile »
Aarthi Vadde
Associate Professor of English
Office: 303-I Allen Building, Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Aarthi Vadde works in the field of 20th-21st century Anglophone literature with particular interests in the historical and technological forces conditioning migration and globalization. She looks at how literary history interfaces with theories of internationalism, the history of computation... Full Profile »
Hannah Vanderhart
Graduate Assistant
Phone: +1 919 684 4289
Office Hours: By appointment
Early Modern Studies. I work on gender and collaborative poetics in the seventeenth century, specifically the poetry of Philip and Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Katherine Philips and Mary, Lady Chudleigh.
Priscilla Wald
R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English
Office: 327B Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-6869
Priscilla Wald teaches and works on U.S. literature and culture, particularly literature of the late-18th to mid-20th centuries, contemporary narratives of science and medicine, science fiction literature and film, law and literature, and environmental studies. Her current work focuses on the... Full Profile »
Julianne Werlin
Bacca Foundation Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Culture and Society
My teaching and research interests include early-modern poetry and prose, literary stylistics, state formation, utopianism, the history of technology, and the sociology of literary forms. My current project, entitled Paperworks: Bureaucracy and Literature in Early Modern England, explores the... Full Profile »
George W. Williams
Professor Emeritus
Office: 07A West Duke, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
Phone: (919) 684-5827
Susan Willis
Associate Professor Emeritus of English
Office: Literature, Durham, NC 27708
Campus Box: Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
Phone: (919) 668-6204
Associate Professor of English and The Literature Program. She teaches courses in minority writing and popular culture. She is the author of "Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience" and "A Primer for Daily Life." She is coauthor of "Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World... Full Profile »
Joseph Richard Winters
Assistant Professor of English
Office: 710 Sidepark Street, Durham, NC 27703
Campus Box: 118 Gray Building, Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 423-1911
Joseph Winters is an assistant professor of Religious Studies with a secondary position in the Department of African and African American Studies. His interests lie in African-American Religious Thought, Religion and Critical Theory, Af-Am Literature, and Continental philosophy. Overall, his... Full Profile »
