Reading a novel or poem closely means asking what the author is actually doing with language — why this metaphor, why this structure, why this ending. Bethany's graduate work at Duke trained her in exactly this kind of textual analysis, and she teaches students to build interpretive arguments ground...

Alisha approaches literary analysis the way she approaches choreography: by breaking a work into its structural choices — point of view, imagery, pacing — and asking why each one matters. Her interdisciplinary background across political science, psychology, and the arts gives her a wide lens for un...

Coding at Duke sharpened Bryce's instinct for close reading — in computer science, a misplaced semicolon changes everything, and in a novel, a single word choice can reshape an entire scene's meaning. He brings that line-by-line precision to literature, teaching students to identify how an author la...

College essays, grammar, and editing all show up on Prakash's subject list alongside his core electrical engineering work — meaning he's spent real time engaging with how language functions on the page, not just in equations. His experience as a university instructor also means he knows how to walk ...

Reading literature closely means learning to ask better questions — about an author's choices, a narrator's reliability, the tension between what's said and what's meant. Professor Florence's background in psychology adds a distinctive angle: she teaches students to analyze character motivation and ...

Reading a novel for class and actually analyzing it are two very different skills, and Michael's MFA training centered on pulling apart how fiction works — point of view, imagery, unreliable narration, the gap between what characters say and what they mean. He teaches students to build literary argu...

Reading a novel is one thing; unpacking how an author builds theme through symbolism, point of view, and narrative structure is another skill entirely. William approaches literature as an exercise in close reading, teaching students to construct arguments about a text rather than simply summarize it...

Reading literature well means noticing what an author chose not to say as much as what they did — the silence in a Hemingway story, the unreliable narrator in a Brontë novel. Rick's liberal arts training at Princeton immersed him in close reading across genres and periods. He teaches students to bui...

Breaking down a poem or novel passage is surprisingly similar to solving an engineering problem — both require isolating the pieces, understanding how they connect, and building an interpretation from evidence. Artem applies that same analytical rigor to literary analysis, walking students through h...

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