Scholars@Duke
Catherine Reilly

Catherine Reilly

Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Literature
Literature
cate.reilly@duke.edu
Campus Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708
101A Friedl Building, 1316 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours : SPRING 2024 | Wednesdays 12-2 pm and by appointment.  

Recent Courses

GERMAN 390S-1: Special Topics in German Studies
Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
GSF 383S: Breakdown: Madness, Self, Fiction
Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
GSF 390S: Special Topics in Women's Studies
Fall 2021
ICS 590S: Topics in International Comparative Studies
Fall 2021
LIT 495: Honors Thesis I
Fall 2024
LIT 590S: Special Topics in Literature
Fall 2021
LIT 684S: Western Philosophy, Global Revolution
Fall 2023, Fall 2022
LIT 836S: Freudo-Marxism
Spring 2024, Spring 2023
LIT 890S: Seminars in Literature
Fall 2024, Spring 2022
LIT 891: Special Readings
Spring 2023
ROMST 390S: Special Topics in Romance Studies
Spring 2022
RUSSIAN 290S: Topics in Russian Studies
Fall 2021
SES 290S: Special Topics in Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Fall 2021

Teaching Activities

TEACHING SPRING 2024
Undergraduate: LIT 390S-9/GERMAN 390S-1 Humanities vs. Sciences: Questions and Debates
Graduate: LIT 836S-1 Freudo-Marxism

I regularly teach the following courses at Duke:
  • Breakdown: Madness, Self, Fiction (Undergraduate)
  • Life Stories: Literature and Personhood (Undergraduate)
  • Humanities vs. Sciences: Questions and Debates (Undergraduate)
  • Western Philosophy, Global Revolution (Undergrad & Graduate)
  • Freudo-Marxism (Graduate)

I have taught the following courses at Duke:
  • Global Lockdown: Prison Writing, Prison Activism (Undergraduate)
  • Reading Difference, Practicing Theory (Graduate)