Reading literature well means doing more than summarizing plot — it means noticing how an author's choices with structure, imagery, and point of view create meaning. Eric is an avid reader and writer himself, and he brings that genuine curiosity to close-reading exercises, whether the text is a Shak...

Respiratory therapy case reports and clinical documentation demand the same skill that strong literary analysis does: reading beneath the surface to figure out what details actually mean and why they're there. Emmanuel applies that clinical precision to texts, teaching students to identify how an au...

Reading a novel is one thing; building an argument about its themes, symbols, or narrative structure is another skill entirely. Jennifer's history training at Dartmouth was built on close textual analysis — pulling evidence from dense sources and constructing interpretive claims — which maps directl...

Reading literature well means learning to sit with ambiguity — figuring out what an unreliable narrator is hiding, or why a poet chose one image over another. Simon's background as a dedicated reader and writer gives him a knack for unpacking texts at the sentence level, connecting craft choices to ...

A dual background in neuroscience and French gives Julie an unusual lens for literary analysis — she's as comfortable unpacking a Flaubert passage in its original language as she is dissecting the narrative structure of a contemporary novel. She teaches students to build arguments about theme, symbo...

Reading literature at Duke — across American, British, and global traditions — taught Anastasia to unpack how authors use symbolism, narrative voice, and structure to build meaning. She walks students through close reading techniques that turn a vague "I liked it" into a precise, text-supported argu...

Reading a novel for class and actually analyzing it are two different skills, and the gap usually shows up when students try to write about theme, symbolism, or narrative structure. Tammy's lifelong love of reading and writing, combined with the analytical rigor she developed studying biochemistry a...

An avid reader studying sociology at Duke, Zhong treats literature as an exercise in close reading — pulling apart how an author's word choices, narrative structure, and historical context shape meaning. He's especially sharp at teaching students to move from surface-level plot summary to crafting a...

Reading a novel for class and actually analyzing it are two different things, and the gap between them is where most students lose points. Frances teaches literary analysis as a set of concrete moves: identifying how an author uses imagery to build tone, tracing a character's arc through specific te...

From memoirs to modern classics like Catcher in the Rye, Eric reads widely and teaches students to dig into literary devices — symbolism, unreliable narration, thematic tension — rather than just summarizing plot. His analytical training as a biomedical engineering major at Duke sharpens the way he ...