Ryan Carroll and Deven Mukkamala: Capper Fellows Present...

Deven Mukkamala is a Duke University doctoral student in political philosophy with research interests in the political thought of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. He is particularly interested in the development of the republican tradition, historical notions of the role of “ambition” in political life, and the conceptual tension between the “Lawgiver” and the political autonomy of his people, especially as it occurs in the thought of Machiavelli and Rousseau. Mukkamala graduated from the University of Chicago in 2022 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the university's "Fundamentals" program and minors in Classical Studies and Romance Languages & Literatures. Before his matriculation at Duke, he undertook postgraduate studies in intellectual history and French civilisation at the University of London and Sorbonne Université, respectively.

Ryan Carroll is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researches information theory and narrative aesthetics in 19th-century British and American literature. His dissertation studies how narrative texts including sensation novels, encyclopedic fictions, epic poems, slave narratives, and war correspondence, experimented with ways of making information experientially legible.  He earned his BA in English from George Washington University in 2020.

Papers will be pre-circulated.  Email tihs@duke.edu to request copies.