January 14, 2009 - DukeReads: Reynolds Price, Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/10/22 11:42:34
DukeReads is an interactive online book club hosted by NPR's Frank Stasio. Log on just before 7 pm to participate in the discussion!
Season's Greetings!
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/12/16 10:54:25
Wishing you all very happy holidays, a pleasant winter break, and all the best for the new year!
December 03, 2008 - Americanist Speaker Series: Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/11/24 14:58:10
"Reading Practices, Gender and Poetry"
Time: 7 pm
Location: The home of Priscilla Wald
For more information, email enf3@duke.edu
December 04, 2008 - Paul Muldoon / Rackett
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/11/26 11:41:00
Poetry Reading by Paul Muldoon in the Rare Book Room
(4:30), followed by a performance by his band, Rackett,at the Duke Coffeehouse on East Campus (9:30). more information
December 09, 2008 - Milton's 400th Birthday Celebration
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/12/02 10:13:54
Sarah Beckwith, Gregson Davis, and Richard Brodhead will read from Paradise Lost, with comments by Reynolds Price. Join us in celebrating the 400th anniversary of Milton's birth!
3:30 pm in the Rare Book Room; reception to follow
Milton's Birthday link here
December 13, 2008 - Minor American Reading Series
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/11/24 15:05:17
Brandon Brown, Allie Warren, and Chall Gray
Poetry Reading
location: Ken Rumble's home
time: 8 pm
November 19, 2008 - Duke Reads: Judith Ruderman, Howard's End by E.M. Forster
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/10/22 11:31:47
DukeReads is an interactive online book club. Log on just before 7 pm at http://www.dukereads.com/ to participate in the discussion!
Congratulations!
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/10/29 14:18:12
Voicing Women and War
Chelsea Allison was awarded the Middlesworth Prize, given by the library for the best paper based on work done in Special Collections. Chelsea won for her wide-ranging research on letters, journals, diaries, and other records written by women during periods of war, out of which she produced a remarkable manuscript of poems.
November 05, 2008 - Vivasvan Soni: "Committing Freedom: The Cultivation of Judgment in Rousseau's Emile and Austen's Pride and Prejudice."
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/11/05 15:04:13
3 pm in OLD TRINITY
November 11, 2008 - Americanist Speaker Series: Florence Dore
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/09/29 15:20:45
Robert Penn Warren's Refusal to Know: Privacy, Race, and the New Criticism in
the Postwar South
7pm -- For details please email Erica Fretwell at enf3@duke.edu
November 15, 2008 - Minor American Reading Series
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/11/06 09:47:29
Poetry Reading: Patrick Herron, Shanna Compton and Jen Knox
8 pm - for directions please email Ken Rumble at rumblek@gmail.com
Working Group meetings
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/11/06 10:11:46
Working Group on Political Theory
Nov. 11, 6:30 pm, 328 Allen
Poetry Working Group
Wed. November 12, 5 pm, 304-i
Ordinary Language Working Group
Nov. 14 & 15 - retreat with Richard Fleming
For more information please see the Working Groups pages in our Community section.
October 22, 2008 - Jane Hirshfield -- Visiting Blackburn Writer
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/09/29 15:19:17
Jane Hirshfield, award winning poet, essayist, and translator, will be our visiting Blackburn writer. Poetry Reading Wednesday October 22nd at 7 pm in Von Canon B. reception to follow
October 22, 2008 - Duke Reads: Melissa Malouf, Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/10/22 11:40:21
DukeReads is an interactive online book club hosted by NPR's Frank Stasio. Log on just before 7 pm to participate in the discussion!
Faculty Scholar Award
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/11/11 16:59:13
Congratulations to English major Paula Rosine Long, winner of the Faculty Scholar Award!
The Duke University Faculty Scholar Award was established in 1974 by members of the faculty of Duke University to encourage undergraduates to undertake serious scholarship and to recognize excellence in scholarship.
October 07, 2008 - Political Theory Working Group meeting
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/10/06 15:00:42
6:30pm to 8:30pm in Allen 328 (discussion of Hannah Arendt, "What Is Authority?")
October 04, 2008 - Minor American Reading Series
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/09/29 15:18:34
Jocelyn Saidenberg and Guillermo Parra: Poetry reading at the Broad Street Cafe, 7 pm
October 22, 2008 - Poetry Working Group meeting
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/09/29 13:56:50
Wed. October 22, 5 pm, Allen 328. For more information please see the Poetry Working Group page in our Community section.
October 24, 2008 - Ordinary Language Philosophy Seminar: Richard Fleming
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/09/29 15:20:02
Three retreats to read Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations with Richard Fleming. For more information (including the required texts) visit the Ordinary Language Philosophy Working Group page in our Community section.
August 23, 2008 - Poetry Working Group - Reading Series Begins
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/08/20 13:13:57
The Poetry Working Group reading series begins this fall with CA Conrad and Frank Sherlock. (Contact the English department for directions.)
2008 Undergraduate Writing Awards
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/04/30 13:35:37
Creative Writing Awards
Academy of American Poets University and College Prize: Adam Eaglin
Terry Welby Tyler, Jr. Poetry Award: Melissa Miller
Anne Flexner Award for Poetry: Jane Chen
Anne Flexner Award for Fiction: Daniel Riley
William H. Blackburn Scholarship: Lindsay White (Honorable Mention: Tassity Johnson)
Margaret Rose Sanford Scholarship:Dihn Xuan T. Phan
Francis K. Pemberton Scholarship: Doug Clark (Honorable Mention: Christopher Nold)
Schutte Senior Writing Award: Adam Eaglin
Non-Fiction Awards
Department of English Award for Non-Fiction Essay: Joo-Young Chang
Outstanding Work in American Literature:
Daniel DeVougas
Barbara Herrnstein Smith Award for Literary Criticism/Theory:Katherine Buse
Stanley Fish Award for Work in British Literature: Aileen Liu
Award for Most Original Honors Thesis: Sarah Ellis and Christina Patsiokas
April 24, 2008 - Nietzsche, Strauss, and Mann: The Encounter of Music and Philosophy
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/04/17 12:31:32
April 24-25 in the Breedlove Room (Perkins Library)
Tracy B. Strong Music, Language and Politics in Nietzsche
Hans Rudolph Vaget 'Schicksalsgeist': Nietzsche, Music, Mann and Weiman Culture
Bryan Gilliam Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Erotics of Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion
David Wellbery Function and Form of Tragedy According to Nietzsche
Charles Youmans Subjectivity and Sentimentality in the Late Works of Richard Strauss
April 10, 2008 - Political Theory Working Group Spring Symposium
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/04/02 10:03:36
The Duke University English Department's Working Group on Political Theory is pleased to announce its second annual Spring symposium April 10 and 11. Schedule
April 16, 2008 - UZODINMA IWEALA: Reading and Discussion
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/04/17 12:32:32
4:30 PM -- Gothic Bookstore
Join us for a reading and discussion about fiction, politics, and contemporary Africa with the acclaimed author of Beasts of No Nation. A lunch with interested undergraduates will precede the reading, at 12 pm in the English department lounge (Allen 328).
"In the blood and vomit and angry voices captured in Beasts of No Nation, a reader sees human nature reforged, manacled to evil, tragically perverted." -Los Angeles Times
"A novel so scorched by loss and anger that it's hard to hold, and so gripping in its sheer hopeless lifeforce that it's hard to put down." -Guardian (UK)
"In this staggering debut [...], a 23-year-old Harvard graduate has written a novel about the perversity of war, and the fragility of humanity." -Boston Globe
For more information, please contact Bart Keeton or Nathan Hensley.
[more] March 25, 2008 - Americanist Reading Group
Thomas G Nickles, 2008/03/12 11:14:26
5.00 pm, graduate lounge
Mikko Tuhkanen, "'Out of Joint': Passing, Haunting, and the Time of Slavery in Hagar's Daughter"
In conjunction with the Americanist Speaker Series, the Americanist Reading Group will be meeting to discuss Prof. Mikko Tuhkanen's recently-published essay in American Literature. Both the Speaker Series and the Reading Group facilitate the development of a local community of scholars, attempting to foster this community while interrogating how we delineate "Americanist" within and across disciplinary, geographic, thematic, and methodological lines.
Judith Halberstam - March 19th and 20th
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/03/17 11:48:18
Judith Halberstam returns to Duke: Faculty seminar Wednesday 3/19, 5:30 - 7:30 pm; graduate seminar Thursday 3/20, 2 - 4 pm. Click here for the faculty seminar and graduate seminar readings.
Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/02/20 16:32:46
The English Department congratulates Professors Priscilla Wald and Toril Moi, both of whom received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring from the Graduate School. This is a tremendous honor and a marvelous tribute to their commitment to their graduate students.
March 04, 2008 - Americanist Reading Group
Thomas G Nickles, 2008/02/06 14:46:28
5.00 pm, graduate lounge
Laura Doyle, "'A' for Atlantic: The Colonizing Force of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter"
In conjunction with the Americanist Speaker Series, the Americanist Reading Group will be meeting to discuss Prof. Laura Doyle's recently-published essay in American Literature. Both the Speaker Series and the Reading Group facilitate the development of a local community of scholars, attempting to foster this community while interrogating how we delineate "Americanist" within and across disciplinary, geographic, thematic, and methodological lines.
February 28, 2007 - Nigel Smith
- MILTON AND THE REVOLUTION
Thomas G Nickles, 2008/02/06 14:14:32
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Thursday, Feb. 28th
Nigel Smith is Professor of English at Princeton and currently the John P. Birkelund Fellow at the National Humanities Center. While his scholarly work has focused primarily on early modern literature, especially the seventeenth century, his approach is interdisciplinary and his interests are diverse. His extensive writings have covered Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Milton, Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Marvell.
With Paul Muldoon he founded the rock band 'Rackett', featured in the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker, and which recently completed a tour of Ireland.
With Paul Muldoon he founded the rock band 'Rackett', featured in the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker, and which recently completed a tour of Ireland.
Performance Conference - March 21-22, 2008
Rebecca Gibson, 2008/03/17 10:32:19
Rare Book Room, Perkins Library. Keynote speakers will include Peggy Phelan (Stanford University), Joseph Roach (Yale University), and Toril Moi (Duke University). The schedule of events can be located here.
