Every year, senior English majors with a concentration in creative writing celebrate the end of the academic term by giving readings of their works before a campus audience. This year, that culminating event — known as the “Creative Writing Concentrators...
Sunil Amrith, Lauren Benton, and Margaret Homans were appointed to endowed professorships.
Amrith, currently of Harvard University, was named as the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History. He focuses his research on the trans-regional movement of...
Three Yale faculty members are among the 175 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists awarded 2020 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Edyta M. Bojanowska, Danna Singer, and A.L. Steiner were chosen from among 3,000 applicants...
Yale historian Frank Snowden has long been fascinated by the ways epidemics hold up a “mirror” to the social, cultural, and political conditions in which they arise. His most recent book, “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present,”...
Yale historian David Blight and architect Peter Eisenman are among four individuals to receive the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ highest honors for excellence in the arts.
Blight, Sterling Professor of American History, and Eisenman, a visiting...
This interview is part of a running series.
How are faculty in the humanities responding to the effects of the COVID-19 crisis?
Yale humanists are creative and conscientious. They are also, like all scholars, committed to the search for truth. For that...
President Peter Salovey has announced the reappointment of three heads of residential colleges: Mary Lui at Timothy Dwight (TD), Thomas Near at Saybrook (SY), and Catherine Panter-Brick at Morse (MC). They will begin their new five-year terms on June 30.