Alice Kaplan, a leading scholar of 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature and history, has been named the next director of the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC). Her three-year term will begin July 1.
Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor...
Jeffrey Brock, Joanne B. Freeman, and Catherine Panter-Brick were appointed to endowed professorships.
Brock, named as the Zhao and Ji Professor of Mathematics, focuses his research on low-dimensional geometry and topology, particularly hyperbolic...
Among Yale students and alumni, professor Fred Strebeigh ’74 B.A., who has taught at Yale since 1984, is something of a legend.
Nonfiction writing courses by Strebeigh, the senior lecturer emeritus in English and in the School of Forestry and...
Twenty first-year students sit around a crowded dining room table in Pauli Murray College, mulling over “A Song on How My Thatched Roof Was Ruined by the Autumn Wind,” a work by the prominent 8th century Chinese poet Du Fu.
The students are part of a new...
As part of his ongoing 2019 DeVane Lectures course, “Power and Politics in Today’s World,” Professor Ian Shapiro has released the first two in a series of five “virtual office hours” videos. The videos, which are meant to supplement regular in-person...