FHI 25| Queering Duke: A Conversation with Mandy Berry, Kathryn Kent, and Jonathan Flatley

2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. This year also coincides with the 100th anniversary of Duke. To mark these dovetailing anniversaries, FHI will host a series of conversations throughout the year engaging some of the most significant humanities scholars of our time - all formerly or currently affiliated with Duke - to historicize the University's significant investment in the humanities in the 1980s, reflect on what such investment made possible alongside national and international developments in the field, and propose future directions of humanities scholarship and teaching within and beyond Duke.

Mandy Berry is Assistant Professor Literature at American University, Washington D.C.

Jonathan Flatley is a professor in the English Department at the University of Chicago.

Kathryn R. Kent is the J. Leland Miller Professor of American History, Literature and Eloquence in English and the Chair of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Williams College.

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