The Duke English Department has long occupied a vital and distinctive place both in the discipline and in the university, where it has served as one of the defining spaces of thought, conversation, teaching, and inquiry. We have played a crucial role in defining the history, present, and future of the practices of reading and interpretation and the paradigms of research, pedagogy, and critique common to and distributed across the humanities as a whole, and we are committed to continuing as a conversation-driving and paradigm-setting place within Duke.

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