Duke University English Department
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Duke University English Department |
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The following instructors
(including members of departments other than English) teach undergraduate
English courses. Also, see a directory
of faculty offices and phone numbers.
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Ronald R. Butters GRADUATE FACULTY
(Ph.D., Iowa, 1967) publishes chiefly on American social and regional
dialects, language theory, and linguistics and legal issues. He is general
editor of American Dialect Society publications. He is the author
of The Death of Black English: Divergence and Convergence in Black
and White Vernaculars (Lang, 1989) and co-editor of Displacing
Homophobia: Gay Male Perspectives in Literature and Culture (Duke,
1989). He is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of
English.
Jane M. Gaines GRADUATE FACULTY
(Ph.D., Northwestern, 1982), has co-edited Fabrications: Costume
and the Female Body (Routledge, 1990) and has published work on feminist
film theory, consumer culture, entertainment law, and African American
film in New Formations, Screen, Cinema Journal, Critical Inquiry,
and Cultural Critique. She has recently edited Classical Hollywood
Narratives: The Paradigm Wars (Duke, 1992) and published Contested
Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law (University of North Carolina
Press, 1991). She is Director of the Program in Film and Video.