G-ENGL-PHD - English - PhD

The department only admits students seeking a PhD. Particular faculty interests currently cutting across the chronological and geographical categorizations of literature include the cultural work of memory; orientalism; mourning, history and reconciliation; literatures and discourses of the Atlantic; diasporic literatures; religion; sound studies; and science and technology. Students are encouraged to read broadly in English and American literatures (including four-nations British literature, English and America in the Black Atlantic, the Irish Atlantic and other Atlanticist literatures, Anglo-diasporic literatures, and postcolonial literatures). They are also encouraged to interrogate the constitution and writing of literary and cultural history, and to develop the specific range of linguistic, philosophical, and historical skills relevant to their chosen field and their chosen intervention therein.

For additional information, visit english.duke.edu/graduate.