Noted poet, essayist, and playwright Claudia Rankine will join the Yale faculty this fall as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.Celebrated poet Claudia Rankine will join the Yale faculty this fall as the Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale. (© John...
What follows was written by George Chochos, who on May 23 earned his Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School. That is a major accomplishment for any Yale student, but for Chochos, it was especially sweet. Just over 15 years ago, Chochos was...
Jing Tsu, professor of East Asian languages and literatures and of comparative literature, was recently honored as a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow.Professor Jing Tsu shown here teaching her course on “China and the World.”A literary scholar and an expert on the...
Langdon Hammer, newly named as the Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English, is a literary scholar, biographer, and critic who studies modern and contemporary poetry and poetics.Langdon Hammer (Photo by Michael Marsland)Hammer is the author of “James Merrill:...
Fred C. Robinson, the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English, died at home in New Haven on May 5. He was 85 years old.
Fred C. Robinson
Robinson was renowned as a philologist gifted at tracing the shape of texts and as a critic sensitive to Old...