The Yale Repertory Theatre kicked off its 2023-24 season this month with “Wish You Were Here,” a play that follows the changing friendships of five Iranian women as they navigate the tumultuous decade encompassing the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq...
In 1925, Sigmund Freud wrote what is now a fairly well-known essay, “A Note on the ‘Mystic Writing-Pad.’” The Mystic Writing-Pad was a relatively simple device that enabled the instant erasure of any markings on its surface. The pad’s foundation layer was...
Shortly after Pericles Lewis became a full professor in Yale’s Departments of English and Comparative Literature, in 2007, he was recruited by Martin Puchner, a Harvard professor and author, to help edit the third edition of the Norton Anthology of World...
Since the publication of his 2018 bestseller, “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” Yale’s Jason Stanley has become a familiar presence on radio and television news broadcasts. The Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy in Yale’s Faculty of...
Karmen Englert was in college in South Dakota when, in 2008, her mother died of a drug overdose.
“I left, took off like a nomad, started selling drugs, and got in a lot of trouble,” she said.
Now incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in...
For more than 20 years, a community radio station in the tiny town of Whitesburg, Kentucky, has delivered personal messages of love and encouragement to the many thousands of incarcerated persons being held in the eight state and federal prisons within...
As an undergraduate at Harvard, Kaiama L. Glover studied French and African American cultures as two separate areas of focus. Her professor and mentor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (a 1973 graduate of Yale), suggested she think about the two cultures together....
This story is the second in a series about Yale’s evolution under President Peter Salovey as he prepares to return to the faculty later this year.
A few years ago, Sunil Amrith was a rising star at Harvard. A professor of history and South Asian studies,...
The inspiration for Carlos Eire’s latest book struck him while visiting a medieval convent in Spain 40 years ago. At one point during a tour, a guide informed Eire and the other visitors that the room where they were standing was the very place where...
It’s the final class of “American Opera Today: Explorations of a Burgeoning Industry.” A dozen students are munching on German Christmas cookies, courtesy of Professor Gundula Kreuzer, while taking turns presenting overviews of their final papers.
Their...