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Faculty: Kenneth Surin  

Kenneth Surin
Title: Professor and Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Office Location: 101F Friedl Building
Office Phone: +1 919 684 4364
Email Address: kenneth.surin@duke.edu
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Education:

  • PhD, University of Birmingham, England, 1977
  • BA (Hons), University of Reading, UK, 1972

Research Interests:  

(Ph.D. Birmingham, England, 1977) is Professor of Literature and Professor of Religion and Critical Theory. He trained initially as an analytical philosopher. His teaching areas include anglophone literatures outside England, philosophy (both analytical and continental), critical theory, marxism, state theory, and international political economy.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

Articles in a Journal

  • K.J. Surin. "Can a Chosen People have a True Politics?." Angelaki .12 (2007): 145-150. [available here]
  • K. J. Surin. "Control Societies and the Managed Citizen." Junctures: New Zealand Journal of Critical Dialogue .8 (2007): 11-25. [available here]
  • K.J. Surin. "Fandom: Colin "Pine Tree" Meads." South Atlantic Quarterly 105 (2006): 429-446.
  • K.J. Surin. "Theology and Marxism: The Tragic and Tragi-Comic." Literature and Theology 19 (2005): 112-131.
Book Reviews
  • K. J. Surin, Review of Kevin Hart, The Dark Gaze. Modern Theology 23:1 (2007). [available here]