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...
Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro admires Tom Paine, the English-born American revolutionary whose 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for independence from Great Britain, whose “American Crisis” letters sustained the American forces...
Well before the rise of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other tech behemoths, philosopher Luciano Floridi contemplated the ethical and conceptual implications of the information age, producing work that presciently addressed the world-changing benefits and...
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...
As an undergraduate at Oberlin College and Conservatory, Daniel Walden spent a lot of time playing music written before 1900, sometimes on instruments dating back to the same period. One day he sat down at a harpsichord that was tuned in what’s called...
Marc Robinson, a longtime member of the Yale faculty and a leading theater critic whose work has illuminated the history of drama and performance in the United States, has been named the next dean of humanities for Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, we drop the needle on a new jazz Christmas album, produced by Grammy-winning saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, that introduces a new voice from Yale College; look toward...
On the Yale campus, the year 2023 was marked by transformative change.
New campus initiatives set the stage for the cross-disciplinary research necessary to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges, and the space to do it. A groundbreaking research...