Nancy Armstrong | Scholars@Duke

Nancy Armstrong
Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor of English

Nancy Armstrong has served as editor of the journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction since 1996 and serves as co-organizer of The Novel Project at Duke, a faculty research seminar. Her scholarship explains how novels imagine a world that can be inhabited (or not) in specific ways by historically and culturally variable readerships. Currently focused on the contemporary novel, she continues to address questions of how modern cultures imagine themselves as a political society: Have, do, or can novels imagine alternative social formations? What narrative mechanisms make it possible for them to do so? How do novels presume to change their readers in the process? How do these "arguments" against the status quo engage political theories that attempt the same feat? Can any such alternative leave the formation we call "the family" intact?

Office Hours

Fall 2022 Semester:

By appointment on Tuesdays 1:15-3:15 pm (305 Allen)

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009
Professor of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008

Contact Information

304C Allen Bldg, English Dept., Durham, NC 27708
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
n.b.armstrong@duke.edu (919) 684-2741
Nancy Armstrong CV
Novel: A Forum on Fiction

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison 1977
- B.A., State University of New York - Buffalo 1966
- Undergraduate, Biology, Wellesley College 1956 - 1958
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English, English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2015
Recognition
In the News
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Awards & Honors
Expertise
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Global Scholarship
- Expertise
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (2017). Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing (Accepted). Haney Foundation.
  - Tennenhouse, L., & Armstrong, N. (Eds.). (2014). The Ideology of Conduct: (Routledge Revivals) Essays in Literature and the History of Sexuality. Routledge.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (Eds.). (2013). The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals): Literature and the History of Violence.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (Eds.). (2013). The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals): Literature and the History of Violence.
  - Armstrong, N. (Ed.). (2011). Theories of the Novel Now, I, II, III (Vol. 42.2, 42.3, 43.1).
  - Armstrong, N., & Montag, W. (Eds.). (2009). The Future of the Human (Vol. 2–3).
  - Kastan, D. S., & Armstrong, N. (Eds.). (2006). The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2005). How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism 1719-1900. Columbia University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1999). Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism. Harvard University Press.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (1992). The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life. University of California Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (Trans.). (1991). Deseo y ficción doméstica: Una Historia Política De La Novela. Universitat de València.
  - Armstrong, N. (Trans.). (1991). Deseo y ficción doméstica: Una Historia Política De La Novela. Universitat de València.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (Eds.). (1987). The Ideology of Conduct: Essays on Literature and the History of Sexuality. Methuen Publishing.
  - Armstrong, N. (1987). Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (Ed.). (1986). Literature as Women’s History, I and II (Vol. 4).
  - Armstrong, N. (Ed.). (1986). Literature as Women’s History, I and II (Vol. 4).
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (Eds.). (1985). The Rhetoric of Violence. Rutledge.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (Eds.). (1985). The Rhetoric of Violence. Rutledge.
- Academic Articles
  - Armstrong, N. (2021). Fagin's Last Words. Mediations.
  - Armstrong, N. (2021). Some Endangered Feeling. Daedalus, 150(1), 40–61. https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01833
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  - Armstrong, N. (2020). Why the Bildungsroman no longer works. Textual Practice, 34(12), 2091–2111. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2020.1834691
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  - Armstrong, N. (2020). Realism and Anachronism. Novel, 53(2), 137–142. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8309497
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  - Armstrong, N. (2019). Why Looking Backward Is Necessary to Looking Forward. Victorian Literature and Culture, 47(1), 123–135. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150318001419
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  - Armstrong, N. (2019). Looking Backward: the Victorian Origins of the Neoliberal Household. Victorian Literature and Culture, 123–123.
  - Armstrong, N. (2019). The Contemporary Disposition of the Novel (In preparation). Continental Thought and Theory, 2(1), 3–27.
  - Armstrong, N. (2019). Waiting for Foucault (In preparation). Mlq, (Special Issue, Desire and Domestic Fiction after Thiry Years).
  - Armstrong, N. (2019). Afterword: Waiting for Foucault. Modern Language Quarterly, 80(1), 37–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7247269
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  - Armstrong, N. (2019). “What Use Is Althusser?”. Cultural Critique, 103(1), 13–18. https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2019.0013
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  - Marx, J., & Armstrong, N. (2018). Introduction: How do novels think about neoliberalism? Novel, 51(2), 157–165. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-6845994
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  - Armstrong, N., & Marx, J. (2018). How do Novels Think About Neo-liberalism? Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 52(2), 157–168.
  - Armstrong, N. (2018). Disavowal and Domestic Fiction: The Problem of Social Reproduction. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.
  - Armstrong, N., & Montag, W. (2017). Are novels literature? Novel, 50(3), 338–350. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-4194920
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  - Armstrong, N., & Montag, W. (2017). The figure in the carpet. Pmla, 132(3), 613–619. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2017.132.3.613
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  - Armstrong, N. (2017). One or Several Jane Eyres. Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (2016). Recalling Cora: Family Resemblances in the Last of the Mohicans. American Literary History, 28(2), 223–245. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajw007
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  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (2016). Recalling Cora: Family Resemblances in the Last of the Mohicans. American Literary History, 28, 1–23.
  - Armstrong, N. (2016). Introduction: Property and Heterotopia". Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 49(1), 1–8.
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  - Armstrong, N. (2015). The Affective Turn in Contemporary Fiction (Accepted). Contemporary Literature.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (2015). Novels before Nations: How Early US Novels Imagined Community. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne De Littérature Comparée, 42(4), 353–367. https://doi.org/10.1353/crc.2015.0036
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  - Armstrong, N. (2014). Hawthorne on the Paradox of Popular Sovereignty. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 47, 24–42.
  - Armstrong, N. (2014). When Sympathy Fails: The Affective Turn in Contemporary Fiction. Spell: The Journal of the Swiss Professors of English Literature and Language, 27–49.
  - Armstrong, N. (2012). The Victorian Archive and its Secret. Nineteenth Century Contexts an Interdisciplinary Journal, 34(5), 529–547. https://doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2012.738075
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  - Armstrong, N. (2012). Gender Must Be Defended. South Atlantic Quarterly, 111(3), 529–547. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-1596263
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  - Armstrong, N. (2011). The Future in and of the Novel: A Position Paper. Novel a Forum on Fiction, 44(1), 8–10. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-1164329
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  - Armstrong, N., & Montag, W. (2009). The future of the human: An introduction. Differences, 20(2–3), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2009-001
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  - Armstrong, N., & Montag, W. (2009). The future of the human: An introduction. Differences, 20(2–3), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2009-001
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  - Armstrong, N. (2009). Editor's introduction: The way we read now. Novel, 42(2), 167–174. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2009-001
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  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (2009). Sovereignty and the Form of Formlessness. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 20(2–3), 148–178. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2009-007
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  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (2008). The Problem of Population and the Form of the American Novel. American Literary History, 20(4), 667–685. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajn046
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  - Armstrong, N. (2007). Professing Disciplinarity: A Position Paper. Victorian Review, 33(1), 11–14.
  - Armstrong, N. (2006). How Novels Think. St. John’S University Humanities Review, 4(2), 14ms-14ms.
  - Armstrong, N. (2005). Feminism, Fiction, and the Utopian Promise of Dracula. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 16(1), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-16-1-1
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  - Armstrong, N. (2001). Monarchy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Nineteenth Century Contexts, 22(4), 495–536. https://doi.org/10.1080/08905490108583524
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  - Armstrong, N. (2001). Who's Afraid of the Cultural Turn? Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 12(1), 17–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-12-1-17
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  - Armstrong, N. (1998). Modernism's Iconophobia and What it Did to Gender. Modernism/Modernity, 5(2), 47–75. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.1998.0028
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  - Armstrong, N. (1998). Fiction in the Age of Photography. Narrative, 7, 37–55.
  - Armstrong, N. (1998). Captivity and Cultural Capital in the English Novel. Novel (Special Issue in Honor of Mark Spilka), 31, 373–398.
  - Armstrong, N. (1994). Why Daughters Die: The Racial Logic of American Sentimentalism. Yale Journal of Criticism, 7, 1–24.
  - Armstrong, N. (1993). Semiotics and Family History. American Journal of Semiotics, 10(1–2), 134–154.
  - Armstrong, N. (1993). A Brief Genealogy of Theme. Harvard English Studies, 18, 38–45.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (1993). Poststructuralism and the Question of History. Narrative, 1, 45–58.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (1993). A Novel Nation; or, How to Rethink Modern England as an Emergent Culture. Modern Language Quarterly, 54(3), 327–344. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-54-3-327
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  - Armstrong, N. (1992). Emily’s Ghost: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Fiction, Folklore. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 25(3), 245–267.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (1992). The American Origins of the English Novel. American Literary History, 4(3), 386–410.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (1992). The American Origins of the English Novel. American Literary History, 4(3), 386–410. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/4.3.386
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  - Armstrong, N. (1990). The Pornographic Effect: A Response. American Journal of Semiotics, 7(1–2), 27–44.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (1990). The Interior Difference: A Brief Genealogy of Dreams. Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, 23(4), 458–478.
  - Armstrong, N. (1990). The Nineteenth-Century Austen: A Turn in the History of Fear. Genre, 23, 227–246.
  - Armstrong, N. (1990). The Occidental Alice. Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 2(2), 3–40.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (1989). Gender and the Work of Words. Cultural Critique, 13, 229–279.
  - Armstrong, N. (1988). O Critico e a Meretriz da Cultura: A Teoria América Pósmoderna. Revista Critica De Ciencias Socais, 24, 107–138.
  - Armstrong, N. (1988). Semiotics and Ideology, 309–321.
  - Armstrong, N. (1988). The Gender Bind: Women and the Disciplines. Genders, 3, 1–23.
  - Armstrong, N. (1986). History in the House of Culture: Social Disorder and Domestic Fiction in Early Victorian England. Poetics Today, 7(4), 647–671.
  - Armstrong, N. (1985). Introduction. Semiotica, 54(1–2), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1515/semi.1985.54.1-2.1
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  - Armstrong, N. (1983). A Language of One’s Own: Communication Modeling Systems in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Language and Style, 16, 343–360.
  - Armstrong, N. (1982). The Rise of Feminine Authority in the Novel. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 15(2), 127–455.
  - Armstrong, N. (1982). Domesticating the foreign Devil: structuralism in English letters a decade later. Semiotica, 42, 243–275.
  - Armstrong, N. (1982). Emily Brontë In and Out of Her Time. Genre, 15, 243–264.
  - Armstrong, N. (1977). Character, Closure, and Impressionist Fiction. Criticism, 19(4), 317–337.
  - Armstrong, N. (n.d.). Do wasps just want to have fun?: Darwin and the question of variation (In preparation). Differences.
  - Armstrong, N. (n.d.). The Sensation Novel. Saq: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 113, 379–548.
  - Armstrong, N. (n.d.). Are Novels Literature? 50th Anniversary Issue. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 50(3).
- Book Sections
  - Armstrong, N. (2019). The Migrant Novel: on becoming what we are not. In Polygraph 27 (pp. 67–67).
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  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (2017). Balibar and the Citizen Subject. In W. Montag & H. Elsayed (Eds.), Just Like a Woman: Balibar on the Politics of Reproduction (pp. 284–308). Edinburgh University Press.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L. (2016). How to Imagine Community Without Property. In de Homenagem a Maria Irene Ramalho Santos: American Literature In a Comparative Context. Impressa da Universidade de Comimbra.
  - Tennenhouse, ., & Armstrong, N. (2014). The Network Novel and How It Unsettled the Domestic Fiction. In S. Arata, J. Wicke, & J. Hunter (Eds.) (pp. 103–120). Blackwell’s.
  - Armstrong, N. (2013). On Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man, 24 February 1871. In D. Felluga (Ed.), BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History.
  - Armstrong, N. (2011). The Sensation Novel. In J. Kucich & J. B. Taylor (Eds.), The Oxford History of the Novel in English Volume 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880 (Vol. 3, pp. 137–153). Oxford University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2011). The Other Side of Modern Individualism: Locke and Defoe. In Z. Meer (Ed.), Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity (pp. 111–120). Lexington Books.
  - Armstrong, N. (2010). When Sexuality Meets Gender in the Victorian Novel. In D. David (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (pp. 97–124). Cambridge University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2010). Afterword. In J. Goldman & A. Jaffe (Eds.), Modernist Star Maps (pp. 237–244). Ashgate.
  - Johnson, C. L., & Tuite, C. (Eds.). (2009). A Companion to Jane Austen. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444305968
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  - Armstrong, N. (2009). When gender meets sexuality in the Victorian novel. In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (pp. 170–192). https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9780511793370.010
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  - Armstrong, N., & Montag, W. (2009). The Future of the Human: An Introduction. In differences (Vol. 2, pp. 1–8).
  - Armstrong, N. (2009). 1798: Mary Rowlandson and the Alien and Sedition Acts. In G. Marcus & W. Sollers (Eds.), A New Literary History of America. Harvard University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2007). The Fiction of Bourgeois Morality and the Paradox of Individualism. In F. Moretti (Ed.), The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes (Vol. 2, pp. 349–388). Princeton University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2007). Realism After Photography: “The fantastical form of a relation among things”. In M. Beaumont (Ed.), Adventures in Realism (pp. 87–102). Blackwell’s.
  - Armstrong, N., & Tennenhouse, L, . (2006). A Mind for Passion: Locke and Hutcheson on Desire. In D. Coli, V. Kahn, & N. Saccamano (Eds.), Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850 (pp. 131–150). Princeton University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2006). Image and Empire. In J. C. H. Liu (Ed.), Visual Culture and Critical Theory: Empire, Asia, and the Question of the Subject (Vol. I, pp. 39–52). Taiwan.
  - Armstrong, N. (2006). Realism. In D. K. E. al (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2005). Why a Good Man is Hard to Find in Victorian Fiction. In A. G. Macedo & M. Pereira (Eds.), Identity and Cultural Translation (pp. 84–102). Ashgate Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2004). Introduction: Victorian Children’s Literature as Political Foreplay. In A Study of Victorian Children’s Literature (pp. xi–xvii). Edwin Mellen Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2003). What Feminism Did to Novel Studies. In E. Rooney (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theory (pp. 99–118). Cambridge University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2002). Captivity and Cultural Capital in the English Novel. In Revolutionary Histories: Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism,1775–1815 (pp. 104–121).
  - Armstrong, N. (2002). What is Real in Realism? In Chung Wai Literary Monthly (Vol. 30, 12, pp. 54–73).
  - Armstrong, N. (2002). Captivity and Cultural Capital in the Atlantic World. In W. M. Verhoeven (Ed.), Revolutionary Histories: Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism (pp. 104–121). Palgrave.
  - Armstrong, N. (2001). The Fiction of Bourgeois Morality and the Paradox of Individualism. In Il Romanzo, Vol. i: La Cultura del Romanzo (pp. 271–306). Einaudi.
  - Armstrong, N. (2001). Writing Women and the Making of the Modern Middle Class. In A. Gilroy & W. Verhoeven (Eds.), Cultural Correspondences: Essays on Epistolary Writing (pp. 29–50). University of Virginia Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2000). The Conduct of Literature, the Literature of Conduct, the Politics of Desire. In Literature from 1400-1800. Gale Research.
  - Armstrong, N. (2000). The Politics of Domesticating Culture. In M. McKeon (Ed.), The Theory of the Novel (pp. 467–475). Johns Hopkins University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2000). Postscript: Contemporary Culturalism: How Victorian is It?:. In J. Kucich & D. Sadoff (Eds.), Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (pp. 311–326). University of Minnesota Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (2000). Introduction to ’Desire and Domestic Fiction’. In M. McKeon (Ed.), The Theory of the Novel. The Jonns Hopkins University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1999). Gender and the Victorian Novel. In D. David (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (pp. 97–124). Cambridge University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1999). Reclassifying Clarissa: Fiction and the Making of the Modern Middle Class. In E. Copeland & C. H. Flynn (Eds.), The Clarissa Project, Volume 9, The Critical Commentary–New Commentaries. AMS Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1998). The Self Contained: Emma. In L. M. White (Ed.), Critical Essays on Jane Austen (pp. 149–159). G.K. Hall.
  - Armstrong, N. (1997). Chinese Women in a Comparative Perspective: A Response. In E. Widmer & K.-I. Chang (Eds.), Writing Women in Late Imperial China (pp. 397–422). Stanford University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1997). Daughters. In C. N. Davidson & L. Wagner-Martin (Eds.), Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States. Oxford University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1996). City Things: Photography and the Urbanization Process. In D. Fuss (Ed.), Human, All Too Human: Essays from the English Institute (pp. 93–130). Routledge.
  - Armstrong, N. (1994). Fatal Abstraction: The Death and Sinister Afterlife of the American Family. In M. Ryan (Ed.), Body Politics (pp. 18–31). Westview Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1991). Imperialist Nostalgia and Wuthering Heights. In L. Peterson (Ed.), Wuthering Heights: A Case Study in Comtemporary Criticism (pp. 428–449). St. Martin’s Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1991). The Rise of the Domestic Woman. In R. Warhol & D. P. Herndl (Eds.), Feminisms: An Anthology of Literature Theory and Criticism (pp. 59–95). Rutgers University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1990). Some Call It Fiction: The Politics of Domesticity. In J. F. MacCannell (Ed.), The “Other” Prospective in Gender and Culture (pp. 59–84). Columbia University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1990). Occidentalismo: una cuestion para el feminismo internacional. In G. Colaizzi (Ed.), Feminismo Y Teoria Del Discourso (pp. 29–44). Catedra.
  - Armstrong, N. (1987). The Rise of the Domestic Woman. In N. Armstrong & L. Tennenhouse (Eds.), The Ideology of Conduct: Essays on LIterature and the History of Sexuality. Routledge.
  - Armstrong, N. (1979). Inside Greimas’s Square: The Game of Semiotic Constraints in Jane Austen’s Fiction. In W. Steiner (Ed.), The Sign in Music and Literature. University of Texas Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (n.d.). A Gothic History of the British Novel. In New Directions in the History of the Novel. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137026989.0013
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  - Armstrong, N. (n.d.). "Captivity Narratives Then and Now," Interview with Nancy Armstrong.
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- Book Reviews
  - Armstrong, N. (1993). Other Women: The Writing of Race, Class, and Gender 1832-1898, by Anita Levy. Signs. Princeton: University of Chicago Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1993). Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China, by Ann Waltner. Signs. Honolulu: University of Chicago Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1989). The Modernist Madonna: Semiotics of the Maternal Metaphor by Jane Van Buren. Signs. Bloomington: University of Chicago Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1989). Mother Midnight: Birth, Sex, and Fate in Eighteenth Century Fiction (Defoe, Richardson, and Sterne) by Robert A. Erickson. Eighteenth Century Studies. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1987). Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens by John Kucich. Nineteenth Century Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1987). Victorian Women's Freedom: Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual. Victorian Studies. Indiana University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1986). Charlotte Bronte and Sexuality, by John Maynard. Victorian Studies. New York: Indiana University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1984). The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen by Poovey. Mln. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (1984). Sexuality and Victorian Literature. Victorian Studies. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (n.d.). The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation by Blake Stimson. Modernism/Modernity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  - Armstrong, N. (n.d.). The Inter-national Invention of the Novel, Margaret Cohen and Carolyn Dever. Translation and Literature.
  - Armstrong, N. (n.d.). Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America by Gillian Brown. Signs.
- Conference Papers
  - Armstrong, N. (2018). Is practical democracy a contradiction in terms? (Vol. 19).
  - Armstrong, N. (n.d.). Desire and Domestic Fiction after Thirty Years. Presented at the Special Session of the Modern Language Association.
  - Armstrong, N. (n.d.). Contemporary: A Concept Seminar. Presented at the Society for Novel Studies, Cornell University.
  - Armstrong, N. (n.d.). The Future of Journal Publishing. Presented at the Special Session of the Modern Language Association.
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
- ENGLISH 101S: The Art of Reading 2022
- ENGLISH 890S: Special Topics Seminar 2022
- ENGLISH 101S: The Art of Reading 2021
- ENGLISH 890S: Special Topics Seminar 2021
- ENGLISH 891: Special Readings 2021
- LIT 890S: Seminars in Literature 2021
- ROMST 790S: Topics in Romance Studies 2021
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Service to Duke
- Duke University. Provost's Committee on Tenure and Promotion Standards. 2017 2017
- Search Committee for History and Theory of the Novel. 2015 - 2016 2015 - 2016
- Appointments,Tenure, and Promotion Committee APT. 2014 - 2017 2014 - 2017
- Co-Director. The Novel Project at Duke. 2014 - 2018 2014 - 2018
- Search Committee for Seventeenth-Century British Literature. 2014 2014
- The Novel Project. Co-Director. 2014 2014
- Associate DGS English. 2012 - 2015 2012 - 2015
- Executive Council of the Graduate Faculty. 2012 - 2013 2012 - 2013
- Graduate Admissions Committee. 2010 - 2015 2010 - 2015
- Graduate Committee. 2010 - 2015 2010 - 2015
- Named Chairs Committee. 2010 - 2013 2010 - 2013
- Search Committee for an assistant professor of contemporary literature. 2010 2010

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