Thursday, April 15, 2021
Faculty sponsors: Nancy Armstrong, Roberto Dainotto, Anne Garréta
If the global circulation of novels has increased in numbers, reach, and importance during the period from 1990 to 2020, we figured, then it stands to reason that critical work on this body of fiction should increase in these respects as well. With this as an article of faith, three members of the Duke faculty developed and co-taught a sequence of five graduate courses focused on various aspects of what, for lack of a better term, we are calling “the global novel.” The most recent of these courses aimed at increasing the scholarly range and professional versatility of graduate students in the literary fields by training them to think, research, and write collaboratively.