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...
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...
Four junior faculty members in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been honored for pioneering scientific or humanities research in their scholarly fields.
Jennifer Allen, an associate professor of history, received the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman...
Fourteen Yale faculty members who work across a range of disciplines were among the 252 accomplished individuals elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences last week.
Those elected are “extraordinary people who help solve the world’s most...
When he first visited the newly refurbished Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) at 320 York St. — known until recently as the Hall of Graduate Studies — faculty member Kevin van Bladel’s thoughts returned to his days as a Yale graduate student more than two...
Growing up in a predominantly white community in Illinois in the 1950s, Gerald Jaynes dreamed of racial equality in the United States long before he even knew who Martin Luther King Jr. was.
But it wasn’t until the future Yale professor was a young Army...
In his scholarly work and teaching, Daniel Martinez HoSang examines issues of race and racial injustice.
Beyond the Yale campus, he’s putting the lessons he’s learned to practice in Greater New Haven area schools, where he helps teachers create more...
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...