Meet the Director
Marianna Torgovnick is a professor of English with wide interests in the arts and media, including film and publishing. She is the author of six critical books, including the acclaimed Gone Primitive and the American Book Award-winning Crossing Ocean Parkway. Born in New York and a graduate of both NYU and Columbia, she knows the city well and loves to share her enthusiasm for it with Duke students.
She can be contacted via email.
For more information on Professor Torgovnick, you can view her website: http://www.duke.edu/~tor/.
Other recent Duke in New York faculty include Sean Metzger (English and Theater Studies) and Jeff Storer (Theater Studies).
