Hello 👋

I write and edit essays and books about cultural history.

Currently, I work as the managing editor of The Public Domain Review and Cabinet magazine in Berlin.

Before that, I was University Lecturer of English Literature at Tampere University, Finland, and a Junior Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

For magazines and newspapers, I’ve written longform reviews and reported features about nightingale conservation, Amazon poetry, the history of emojis, Arab Postal Union stamps, environmental activists who want to rename Homo sapiens, the erotic history of rocking chairs, and other topics and things.

My essays and reviews have appeared in The Telegraph, the New Left Review, The Economist, the Times Literary Supplement, History Today, ArtReview, the Los Angeles Review of Books, etc.

My first book is about why we sign our names.

In my academic life, I’ve published research essays on, inter alios, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Marie de France, Marcel Proust, J. M. Coetzee, Seamus Heaney, Patrick Pearse, and Deleuze and Guattari.

I completed a PhD on English literature at the University of Cambridge.

I am available to discuss new writing projects and collaborations: hunterdukes [at] gmail.