Yale Sterling Professor David Quint is, in his own words, a product of Yale’s Department of Comparative Literature.
Quint, who received his B.A. in English (1971) and his Ph.D. (1976) in Comparative Literature from Yale, is a specialist in the literature...
Appreciation of a beautifully written text is but one of the skills that students taking courses in English at Yale will learn. Among the others, says Yale English professor Stephanie Newell, is the skill of rhetoric.
Sometimes, when she sees students...
Three Yale faculty members — Anne Eller and William Rankin in the Department of History and Anna Zayaruznaya in the Department of Music — were awarded the 2018 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research by untenured...
In celebration of the introduction of American Sign Language (ASL) to Yale’s curriculum, the Department of Linguistics is hosting a panel discussion on Friday, Nov. 9.
Titled “Sign Languages and the Mind: Their History, Science, and Power,” the event will...
Three Yale faculty members have been awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
This year’s winners are: Alexey Fedorov, professor of geology and geophysics; Martin Hägglund, professor of comparative literature and of humanities...