May 21 – 24, the English Department hosted the 17th Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR). For four days, over 250 participants from all over the U.S. Canada and Europe gathered at the Washington Duke Inn. The theme of this year’s conference was Romanticism and Modernity, and many scholars presented work engaged in furthering our understanding of the connections and discontinuities between this relatively short period and the larger cultural formations of European Modernity.

Prof. Thomas Pfau and Prof. Robert Mitchell confronted the mathematically sublime task of organizing such a large conference with inexhaustible energy. By all accounts, the conference was a great success. The organizers had the help of a few resourceful graduate students who found the time to put in many hours of work. Among the most essential were Lindsey Andrews and Nathan Hensley from the English Department and Lisa Klarr and Abraham Geil from the Department of Literature.

- Kevin Modestino

Read the article from This Month at Duke.

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