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A conversation with Richard Brodhead of Duke University
with Richard Brodhead on Dec 12, 2005
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with Richard Brodhead on Dec 12, 2005
Richard Brodhead is an American academic and the current President of Duke University.
Brodhead graduated from Yale in 1968 and received his Ph.D. there in 1972. He then joined the Yale faculty, where he became the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English and American Studies. After serving as chair of Yale’s Department of English for six years, Brodhead was named dean of Yale College in 1993, and served in the post for 11 years until he assumed Duke’s presidency.
An expert in 19th-century American literature, Brodhead has written or edited more than a dozen books on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles W. Chestnutt, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Richard Wright and Eudora Welty, among others.
