Two Events for Social Theory's Distinguished Fall Speaker

Who: Nancy Armstrong
What: Colloquim - discussing her most recent book "How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism 1719-1900"
When: Thursday, November 5, 4:00 p.m.
Where: 318 POT

Who: Nancy Armstrong
What: Lecture - "A Gothic History of the British Novel"
When: Friday, November 6, 2:00 p.m.
Where: West End Room on the 18th Floor of POT 

Nancy Armstrong is among the most distinguished feminist literary critics working today. Before moving to Duke this past year to become the Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Professor of English, Armstrong was the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture & Media, and Gender Studies. Her 1987 book, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (Oxford UP), is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential texts in literary studies of the last 25 years. In addition to Desire and Domestic Fiction and How Novels Think, Armstrong is the author of two other books: Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism (Harvard UP, 1999) and (with Leonard Tennenhouse) The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (U of California P, 1992). She is also the editor of the journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction.