work 
founding editor
glotta
hydra, greece
2025–present

managing editor
cabinet
berlin, germany
2023–present

managing editor
public domain review
manchester, united kingdom
2020–present

university lecturer
tampere, finland
2020–2022

junior research fellow
peterhouse, cambridge
2017–2020


school

phd in english 
peterhouse, cambridge

mphil in english
king’s college, cambridge

ba in english
pomona college


play
“Curious and Curiouser: Cabinet magazine has landed in Berlin after 25 years”, with Sina Najafi and Alexander Wells, The Berliner (2025)

“Professionalization Special: Public-Facing Writing”, with Mathilde Montpetit, The Medieval Academy of America (2024)

Glotta magazine launch (2025 – Hydra, Greece)

“From Pohlstraße on Home to Eccles St”, Bloomsday 2025, organized by Susan Philipsz, Tom McCarthy, and Eoghan McTigue (2025 – Berlin)

Object Lessons: A Group Reading with Shonna Milliken Humphrey, Hanne Blank, and Sheila Liming, Skylight Books, Los Angeles (2020 – zoom)


software
python; perl; markdown; yaml; indesign; photoshop; airtable; zapier; bricolage cms; etc. 

courses taught

Tampere University

Inversions of the Pastoral

What’s in a Name? Onomastic Fantasies in Literature

English in Ireland: Linguistics and Literature

Going Viral: Media, Contagion, and Containment

Postcolonial Cultures and Global Literatures in English

Texts & Culture: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis (I)

Genres in Context: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis (II)

Basics of Research, Literary Studies

Writing the Bachelor’s Thesis

Theories of Space & Place


Cambridge University

Practical Criticism and Critical Practice

Modernism and the Short Story

History and Theory of Literary Criticism

Contemporary Literature

American Literature, 1870 – Present

British Literature, 1830 – Present


Pomona College

Art & Time (co-taught with Arden Reed)


academic talks
Keynote — “Autographs through the Ages”, with Jill Gage and Tim Ingold, Contextual Alternative (2021 – zoom)

Spatial Studies and Environmental Humanities conference, Tampere University (2020)

Epistolary Modernisms with Merve Emre, Kamran Javadizadeh, and Michelle Taylor, Modernist Studies Association, Brooklyn (2020 – canceled)

Sounding the Non-Human with Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell and Rodney Cross, In Pursuit of Sound, Cambridge (2019)

Cambridge Seminar in Theory and Criticism (2019)

The Look of Language with Joseph Rosenberg, Jennifer Soresnsen, and Emily Setina, Modernist Studies Association, Columbus (2018)

En/Decoding Beckett with Dirk Van Hulle, Annette Balaam, and Pim Verhulst, Beckett & Technology, Charles University (2018)

Knowing Dubliners, Knowing Joyce with Maureen McVeigh Trainor, Seamus May, and John Gordon, The Art of James Joyce, University of Antwerp (2018)

Prosaic Objects plenary with Clara Jones, Isabelle Brasme, and Caroline Pollentier, Modernist Objects, Sorbonne University (2018)

Joyce, Fiction, Magazine and Book History with Scarlett Baron, Claire Hutton, and Clair Wills, Joyce to Beckett, Magdalene, Cambridge (2018)

Cultural Logic of Capitalism with Benjamin Pickford and Dominic Jaeckle, art / money / crisis, Cambridge (2016)

Slowing Down Modernism with Arden Reed, Cedric Van Dijck, and Marianne Kaletzsky, Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena (2016)

Scatology with Doug Phillips and Jo Sunggyung, Anniversary Joyce, University College, London (2016)

Sign/Language with Tobias Harris and Radvan Markus, Metamorphoses: The Third Annual Flann O’Brien Conference, Charles University, Prague (2015)

Quasi-Objects/Quasi-Subjects with Kathryn M. de Luna, Seth Auster-Rosen, and R. John Williams, Object Emotions: Revisited, Yale University (2015)



Dr. Hunter Dukes
hunterdukes [at] gmail.com



I write and edit essays & books about art, culture, ephemera, and the history of science and technology. 

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

I am also the founding editor of a new print magazine out of Hydra, Greece, called GLOTTA.

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

In 2025–2026, I was the inaugural resident of the Hydra Book Club + Library Residency.

I also work as a freelance project manager/developmental editor for artist catalogues, commercial periodicals, and trade nonfiction. If you’d like help with your project, please get in touch.

For magazines & newspapers, I’ve written longform reviews & 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 first book is about why we sign our names.

I am available to discuss new writing projects & collaborations.
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Essays that I have edited for Cabinet as of October 2026


IN GAZA DIES YOUR WESTERN DREAM
STATEMENT BY ISP ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR REGARDING THE WHITNEY’S CANCELLATION OF “NO AESTHETICS OUTSIDE MY FREEDOM: MOURNING, MILITANCY, AND PERFORMANCE” AND THE ISP COHORT’S RESPONSE
KOJÈVE & CIGARETTES
OBLIVION CULTURE
CUTTING THE BEAN
A STAMP ON HISTORY
FALLING OUT OF THE WORLD
SAPIENS?
DEFEAT AS METHOD
INCITING GENOCIDE: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL SFARD
SUBDIVIDED MEMORY
AGAINST INSULARITY
INGESTION / TEMPTING THE TEMPERATE
INTRODUCTION
THE FIRST TOMATO TO KNOW EVERYTHING
1996: A MOST PRODUCTIVE YEAR
A GUIDE TO BRISTOL FROM ANTIPODAL DUNEDIN
ARTIST PROJECT / GRUMBLING
WALLPAPER
QUIBBLES MAY ARISE: AN INTERVIEW WITH SPENCER SPENCER
THE SECRECY ROUND
THE DETRITUS OF OUR DAYS
WEBSTER’S TIMELINE HISTORIES REVIEWED, 2025–2026
INVENTORY / FLAMEHOLDERS
INSIDE THE KILL CHAIN: AN INTERVIEW WITH CRAIG JONES
LOVE LINES
ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE
ARTIST PROJECT / ANCHOR AND ARCHIVE
LOOKING BACK AT THE WHITE MAN
THE BUSINESS OF PLEASURE
INGESTION / RISING FROM THE BREAD
LEFTOVERS / EACH EYE IS HAUNTED
INTO THE LABYRINTH
THE SOFTEST OF POWERS
CABINET IS SAFE
DOLLS AND IDOLS
ARTIST PROJECT / EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES
THEORY OF THE BREAKUP
MICHELANGELO WAS MAKING THIS
HARD CASES FOR A HANDLE THEORY
LIGHT DEVOURED