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Victor H. Strandberg

Professor Emeritus of English
English
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708-0015
315 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Victor Strandberg has published The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren (Kentucky, 1977), Religious Psychology in American Literature: The Relevance of William James (Studia Humanitatis, 1981), and A Faulkner Overview: Six Perspectives (Kennikat Press, 1981), together with numerous essays on American literature. His most recent book is Greek Mind/Jewish Soul: The Conflicted Art of Cynthia Ozick (University of Wisconsin Press, 1994). Every sabbatical year he has spent a semester abroad teaching American Literature, as a Fullbright professor at the Universities of Uppsala, Louvain, and Mannheim, and in spring 2001 in the Czech Republic. He has also taught at Kobe College in Japan and in Marrakech, Morocco.

Office Hours


Fall '25 Semester:

Tuesdays, 1:30-3:00 in my office, plus by appointment, including every night on Zoom between 9:00-11:00 PM

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Professor Emeritus of English · 2026 - Present English, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent News Items


Published January 22, 2025
The English Professor Whose Office Teaches History

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Recent Scholarly Works


Cracking the Wasp Code: Joan Didion and the Soul Word

Journal article Advances in Literary Study · 2024 Full text Open Access Cite

Updike's Epitaph

Journal article The John Updike Review · 2023 Open Access Cite
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Education


Brown University · 1962 Ph.D.
Brown University · 1959 M.A.
Clark University · 1957 B.A.