Duncan supports the fantastic range of Gen Ed courses on offer at Harvard, providing pedagogical guidance, managing the Course Support team, and overseeing registration and enrollment. Before joining the Gen Ed Program, he was Associate Director of Studies in History & Literature.
Duncan received his D.Phil from the University of Oxford after which he was a Research Fellow in the Newhouse Humanities Center at Wellesley College. Since joining Hist & Lit in 2015, he has taught seminars on colonialism, the history of London, the Cold War, British cultural history, and, most recently, on espionage fiction. He has also taught a seminar on the Booker Prize in the English department and teaches the ALM Capstone English course in the Department of Continuing Education. He is the author of two books, Nabokov and his Books (2017) and Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War (2019). He is an avid reader of contemporary fiction and convenes the Writers Speak series for the Mahindra Humanities Center. In a previous life, he was a sports reporter, mainly writing about football.