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Aarthi Vadde

Aarthi Vadde

E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor
English
aarthi.vadde@duke.edu
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
312 Allen Building, Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
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Awards & Honors

M.H. Abrams Fellow

National National Humanities Center · September 2020 Yearlong fellowship

Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship in English

Scholarly Society Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages · January 2020 Essay prize shared with co-author Melanie Micir for "Obliterature: Toward an Amateur Criticism" Modernism/Modernity 25.3(2018):517-549.

Harry Levin Prize

Scholarly Society American Comparative Literature Association · April 2018 Awarded to the best first book published in the field of comparative literature. More about this award

Career Enhancement Fellowship, Honorable Mention

National Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation · 2014

Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence

National Harvard University · May 2011

Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence. Harvard University

University Harvard University · December 2010

In the News

Published April 11, 2024
Spring Books by Duke Authors: Meditations, Baseball, Rebels and Stomach Pains
Published February 21, 2023
ChatGPT Is Here to Stay. What Do We Do With It?
Published May 1, 2021
George Saunders on Why the Novel is Like a Stack of Yurts
Published April 2, 2021
Critics and Authors Talk Literature in Novel Dialogue Podcast from Duke English
Published March 17, 2021
March Books: Priscilla Wald. Aarthi Vadde, et al, "The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science"
Published April 17, 2020
Here Are Duke's 2020-21 National Humanities Center Fellows
Published January 14, 2020
Professor Aarthi Vadde and Melanie Micir Are the 2020 Recipients of the Florence Howe Award in English
Published November 18, 2018
Modernism and Mimesis
Published April 11, 2018
Duke English faculty Aarthi Vadde wins book prize
Published October 19, 2014
Can Literature Make Us a Good Global Citizen?