Duke’s English Ph.D. invites scholars to interrogate texts across media—from medieval manuscripts to TikTok micro-poetry—through critical theory, cultural history, and computational analysis. Doctoral seminars pair Black ecocriticism with natural-language processing; archives labs teach multispectral imaging for palimpsest recovery; and public-humanities studios turn dissertation chapters into podcasts, VR exhibits, and policy briefs on AI authorship. Funded residencies at the Rubenstein Rare Book Library and the Digital Humanities Initiative ensure rigorous primary-source work and cutting-edge tool building. Graduates enter professorships, publishing, data-journalism, and cultural-policy leadership with a portfolio that blends scholarly depth and civic impact.
Text-mining abolitionist newspapers to trace rhetoric of resistance
VR re-creation of Romantic salon readings with AI avatars
Sentiment analysis of pandemic poetry on Instagram
Blockchain provenance for born-digital chapbooks
Critical edition of overlooked Harlem Renaissance plays with TEI markup
Machine-learning attribution study of anonymously published queer fiction
Podcast series spotlighting Afro-futurist climate narratives
Interactive map of settler-colonial metaphors in 19th-century travelogues
Data-viz of literary-prize networks and canon formation
Serious game teaching close reading through branching narratives
Citizen-scholar transcription of women’s WWI diaries
AI poetry generator critiquing surveillance capitalism
Public syllabus on accessibility in digital storytelling
Digital archive of Indigenous speculative fiction zines
Meta-analysis of metaphors for contagion from Defoe to DeLillo
Augmented-reality marginalia overlay for Shakespeare quartos
Community writing workshop linking environmental justice and lyric form
Policy brief on copyright for large-language-model training corpora
Merge critical theory and computational methods to re-envision literature at Duke.
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