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...
Three Yale faculty members are among the 175 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists awarded 2020 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Edyta M. Bojanowska, Danna Singer, and A.L. Steiner were chosen from among 3,000 applicants...
Yale historian Frank Snowden has long been fascinated by the ways epidemics hold up a “mirror” to the social, cultural, and political conditions in which they arise. His most recent book, “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present,”...
Whether they’re holed up at home or working on the frontlines, people crave diversions from the unfolding crisis. Many turn to streaming services to catch a superhero blockbuster or follow the travails of the shameless miscreants of “Tiger King,” the...
Yale historian David Blight and architect Peter Eisenman are among four individuals to receive the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ highest honors for excellence in the arts.
Blight, Sterling Professor of American History, and Eisenman, a visiting...
As college students nationwide transition to online classes, Yale University Press (YUP) is providing them free access to its ebooks, including digital textbooks, through the end of the semester.
YUP has arranged with digital content providers EBSCO,...
Yale University today announced a female-dominated slate of recipients for the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight writers, including seven women, were honored for their literary achievement or promise and will receive $165,000 each to support their...
Dirt and dirtiness are ubiquitous — but the ways we conceive of it vary in ways both cultural and personal. In her new book, “Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos” (Duke University Press), Yale English Professor...
During her 50 years as a teacher, almost 30 of them at Yale, Sterling Professor of English Ruth Yeazell ’71 Ph.D. has sometimes wondered if, fired up by her literary passions, she talks too much in her classes.
So, in two of her three classes this...
Yale sophomore Selma Abouneameh grew up in Connecticut speaking English at home, not her Palestinian father’s native language of Arabic. But this semester at Yale, she is progressing toward her goal of becoming a more fluent Arabic speaker, with this...