So intense was her grief after her husband’s sudden death that noted poet Elizabeth Alexander ’84 could only produce what she calls “animal sounds” when she first put pen to paper to write of her experience.
Those “sounds” eventually became sentence...
Yale doctoral student Lindsay Stern traces the idea for her new novel “The Study of Animal Languages” to an experience she had involving a lie detector machine.
As an Amherst College undergraduate, Stern had visited the office of a philosophy professor to...
Students enrolled in a seminar with Yale historian John Merriman gain much more than knowledge, according to Yale senior Kevin Bendesky. They also gain a “family.”
For his commitment to his students, among other traits, Merriman was recently named a...
As a general rule, Yale puts little stock in external rankings. But every now and again, when there’s especially good news, it’s hard not to boast just a little.
And so we report that Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History, has not one...
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...
Yale historian Rohit De and social psychologist Jennifer Richeson are among the 27 individuals named as 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellows. They will each receive $200,000 in philanthropic support for “high-caliber scholarly research in the humanities and...
The Ethnicity, Race & Migration Program (ERM) this year graduated its largest class yet: 34 seniors, many of them first-generation college students.
In the interdisciplinary program, founded in 1997, students engage the fields of ethnic, Native, and...
When a student named Justin wrote pieces for a creative writing workshop offered by the Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI) this summer, he felt like he was sharing his heart with the world.
The workshop, which was offered to inmates at the MacDougall...
Louise Glück, an adjunct professor of English at Yale and renowned poet whose evocative voice has for decades shaped the literary landscape, on Oct. 8 received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Royal Swedish National Academy announced.
Glück, who...
For Yale scholar Hazel Carby, one of the gratifications of winning the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding is that this year’s honor recognizes the importance of work in ethnic and racial studies, which has previously...