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Arts & Humanities

Our Arts & Humanities departments represent some of the top-ranked programs in the nation. The humanities disciplines use historical, philosophical, and artistic approaches to study the human condition. Humanistic knowledge plays a crucial part in the education of the individual and the betterment of society.
 

We are also a rich place to study, practice and perform art, creative writing, dance, media and visual arts, music and theater. Our programs are defined by the university’s culture of cross-disciplinary research and education. As a result, the whole of Duke serves as a resource for the arts, informing and deepening student and faculty exploration of artistic expression and tradition.

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Majors Offered
26
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Minors Offered
28
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Faculty Members
207

Recent Arts & Humanities Faculty Publications

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Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures
Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos (Editors)
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Non-Literary Fiction Art of the Americas Under Neoliberalism
Esther Gabara
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Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era
Esther Kim Lee
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Modern and Contemporary World Drama: Critical and Primary Sources
Esther Kim Lee (editor)
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Incomprehensible Certainty: Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image
Thomas Pfau
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Perpetual West
Mesha Maren
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The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
Jakob Norberg
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The Architecture of Ideas: The Life and Work of Ranulph Glanville, Cybernetician
Bill Seaman
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The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy
Jed W. Atkins (editor)
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O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South
Tom Rankin (foreword author)
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Epicurus in Rome
Gregson Davis and Sergio Yona
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Theorizing Colonial Cinema: Reframing Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Film in Asia
Nayoung Aimee Kwon
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James Joyce Remembered, Edition 2022
Helen Solterer (contributor)
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The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature
Sarah Quesada
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A Widower's Lament: The Pious Meditations of Johann Christoph Oelhafen
Ronald K. Rittgers
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