A discussion guided by Duke Professors Marguerite Nguyen and Susan Thananopavarn about why they love to teach Thi Bui’s graphic memoir The Best We Could Do.
Mongane Wally Serote, the Poet Laureate of South Africa will present an evening of poetry and reflections on the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, when students bravely fought back ...
Duke English and the Duke Writers Collective invite you to a bilingual poetry reading at Duke Coffee House on Saturday, October 24th, from 7-8 PM at the Duke Coffee House. ...
Duke English and the Franklin Humanities Institute will host a talk by Hadji Bakara, Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. Bakara will explain how writing has shaped ...
Join author and scholar Najha Zigbi-Johnson for a gallery talk exploring Mapping Malcolm in conversation with the exhibition, Turn the volume up! Moderated by Durham-based artist Marcella Zigbuo Camara, the ...
APSI’s summer book club is back by popular demand. This year, the books have been chosen to set the stage for APSI’s annual keynote talk (November 2026) which will feature ...
Please mark your calendar! You are invited to “The Life of the Novel in a Post-Text World: A Symposium on the State of the Literary Ecosystem”, Thursday, March 19th, through ...
The Rights and Humanities Annual Series is jointly sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and the Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI. The series was launched in ...
The Text + Pix Collective (est. Fall 2024) is a group of Duke faculty, Duke students and Triangle community members who share an artistic interest in the relationship between the ...
The Text + Pix Collective (est. Fall 2024) is a group of Duke faculty, Duke students and Triangle community members who share an artistic interest in the relationship between the ...
Indigenomicon: Book Launch and Conversation featuring author Jodi Byrd in conversation with Courtney Lewis Join RISE-US (the Research for Indigenous Studies & Engagement in the United States program) and the ...
experimenting with words + images across mediums Mon., Feb. 2, 6-8pm CDS Library, Bridges 113 *RSVP to lauren.neefe@duke.edu* + Alexa Dilworth/Mesha Maren-Hogan + plus, your projects, archives, and practice + ...
The Text + Pix Collective (est. Fall 2024) is a group of Duke faculty, Duke students and Triangle community members who share an artistic interest in the relationship between the ...
Film Screening: “Dìdi” (Sean Wang, 2024, 91 min, USA, English and Mandarin with English subtitles, DCP) In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable ...
Mon., Nov. 17, 6-8pm CDS Library, Bridges 113 *RSVP by Nov. 14 to lauren.neefe@duke.edu* experimenting with words + images across mediums + ft. Nasher curator Ellen Raimond and MFA|EDA student ...
The Black Archival Imagination Lab invites you to “The Archives of African Literature Colloquium” symposium. The symposium will feature Keynote Speaker Jean-Marie Jackson and several presenting and responding scholars. Join ...
Join us for this discussion guided by Duke Professor Joseph Winters about why he loves to teach James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. Free copies of the book are available ...
We are excited to invite you to a poetry reading by Rachel Blau DuPlessis. DuPlessis will be sharing selections from her most recent publication, “The Complete Drafts.” A major work ...
Five interdisciplinary scholars will respond to Jarvis C. McInnis’s groundbreaking new book, Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South, wherein he establishes Booker T. Washington’s ...
The Outside Poetics x Poetics outside graduate working group facilitates poetic study as collaborative practice-through music and art-foregrounding improvisation and gathering. ‘Poetics Outside’ means we curate community-facing programming through events ...
The Duke University English Department would like to invite members of your community to “Read & Greet” featuring Camille Bordas, 2025-26 Distinguished Blackburn Artist-in-Residence, with the department. Professor Bordas will ...
The next Text + Pix gathering is MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 6-8 P.M., CDS LIBRARY. Bring yourself. Bring your friends. Bring your questions. Kindly RSVP to lauren.neefe@duke.edu, so we know how ...
Students, faculty and community members are welcome to join the MFA|EDA and English/Creative Writing programs for the next gathering of the Text & Pix Collective! Hear from Tom Rankin and ...
Professor Mesha Maren is hosting an event on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, to celebrate everything memorized. She is calling for participants to join her at the Duke Coffeehouse on April ...
The fifth and final reading in the Solarities series features Nathaniel Mackey and Joseph Donahue, both Duke poets, along with visiting poet fahima ife. Nathaniel Mackey is the author of ...
Please join us for a symposium celebrating the opening of an exhibit exploring the work and legacy of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Full details and times for sessions are listed at ...
An event featuring South African photojournalist, Paul Weinberg, on his upcoming retrospective called “Between the Cracks.” He will tell the story of his journey and journeys that took him to ...
Students, faculty and community members are welcome to join the MFA|EDA and English/Creative Writing programs for the next gathering of the Text & Pix Collective! Hear from Professor Stan Abe ...
The Irish poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama is the featured speaker for this public conversation and poetry reading. The host of the popular podcast “Poetry Unbound,” Ó Tuama will ...
Hosted by Tessa Bolsover and Michael Cavuto. Solarities is a poetry reading series bringing established and emerging visiting writers to Duke. For our fourth event, we welcome poets Will Alexander ...
Duke English invites you to join us for a “Reading and Q&A Session” featuring author Ange Mlinko. “Reading and Q&A” featuring Ange Mlinko Tuesday, Novtember 12, 2024 6:00 PM Allen ...
In this opening public event of the 2024-25 Keohane Professorship, interdisciplinary artist and scholar Ashon Crawley will present on the relation of dirt and soil to the making of Black life, and how degrading the earth is part of the attempt to unmake Black possibility.
Guests Speakers: Rachel Kushner, Claire Messud, and Paul Yoon A brief reception will follow the reading, from 3:30 to 5:00 PM
Keynote Speaker: Rachel Kushner Keynote Panel: Rachel Kushner, Claire Messud, and Paul Yoon (facilitated by Duke faculty member Akhil Sharma) Stay tuned for information about reserving your ticket
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Margaret Price, Associate Professor and Director of the Disability Studies Program at Ohio State University and author of “Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and ...
Duke English invites you to “Reading and Q&A” that we are hosting Joanna Biggs is a writer of creative nonfiction and literary essays, and a senior editor at Harper’s. Her ...
Duke English invites you to our Fall ’24 “Read & Greet” featuring Distinguished Blackburn Artist-in-Residence Frances Leviston. Professor Leviston is a British poet, critic, short story writer, photographer, and Senior ...