Duke University English Department

09/16/2026

09/11/2026

Please join us next Thursday for a presentation by Amy De’Ath, Tufts University, about her new book, "Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction (Stanford University Press). Sponsors: by Romance Studies, FHI, English, and Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies.

09/11/2026

Dear English majors, minors and students interested in English:

Please join the English Department’s for our first THIRD TUESDAY of the semester, September 15, 2:30-3:30 PM in Allen 328! This is your chance to meet and chat with English professors and other majors and minors while dining on pie and sweet treats from Foster’s Market. We are especially excited to meet any first-years who are joining Duke this year and interested in English.

We hope to see you there!

09/04/2026

"The arts and humanities are a small piece of the AI pie, but they are our piece of the pie."

Tom Comitta talks to Aarthi Vadde about her new novel, "We the Platform," and reading in the Web 2.0 era: http://lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-the-platform-artificial-intelligence-aarthi-vadde-internet

09/01/2026

In a four-part series that connected the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute with the Duke Alumni Lifelong Learning network, the humanities were discussed by faculty

08/28/2026

“Connect with a wide range of academic services and opportunities available to Duke students at this year’s Academic Resources Week. Discover the tricks and habits for a successful Duke academic career. Student attendees are entered into a prize raffle. For more details visit https://undergrad.duke.edu/academic-resources-week/."

08/24/2026

How Maya Myers (English Alum) Discovered Her Voice as a Children’s Book Author

https://trinity.duke.edu/news/education-program-alumni-feature

08/24/2026

The longest running web series out of Duke University's John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute has a new host for its seventeenth season on YouTube.

08/12/2026

An internationally recognized scholar, Moi’s work has influenced feminist theory, literary studies, and the study of the relationship between literature and philosophy.