Marianna Torgovnick Professor and Director, Duke in New York Program
Office Location: 302A Allen
Office Phone: 919-684-2165
Email Address: tor@nyc.rr.com
- Office Hours:
- by appointment
- Education and Interests:
- Ph.D., with distinction, Columbia University
- British Literature; 20th Century/Modernist Studies
- Marianna Torgovnick writes on the novel and novel theory, postcolonialism, modernism, and the twentieth century more generally, and especially on contemporary American issues. She specializes equally in British and American literature and culture. She has published Closure in the Novel (Princeton, 1981), and The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel: James, Lawrence, and Woolf (Princeton, 1985), Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives (Chicago, 1990), and Crossing Ocean Parkway (Chicago, 1994), for which she won an American Book Award. Her most recent book is Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy (Knopf, 1997; paperback Chicago, 1998). Her most recent book is called The War Complex: World War II in Our Time, about memories and perceptions of the Second War World in the Twenty First Century. Professor Torgovnick is currently teaching in New York through the Duke in New York Program. For more information, visit her website www.duke.edu/~tor
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- "Let's re-examine pre-emptive war policy." The Herald Sun (October 1, 2006): A9.
- The Way We Live Now. Forthcoming. (A collection of four long essays defining salient aspects of twenty-first century life: "What Comes After Postmodernism?" "Species Talk," "Talking about Sex," "Perpetual War." All in gestation period.)
- Review, Michel North, Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word. American Literature (2006).
- "Selling the House." Our Roots Are Deep with Passion. Ed. Joanna Herman and Lee Gutkind. New York: Other Press, 2006. 234-44.
- "Primitivism Today." II Primitivismo. Ed. Vita Fortunati. forthcoming.
