The 21st annual faculty staged reading will be a concert performance of John Gay’s “ballad opera,” “The Beggar’s Opera” of 1728, generally considered the first musical. It will be held in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art on Tuesday,...
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...
In a Feb. 2017 lecture, “What Translation Means: The Extent and Impact of Translation in America” at the Whitney Humanities Center, Harold Augenbraum, a career translator and now acting editor of the Yale Review, outlined an argument for creating a center...
Boris Berman and Daphne Ann Brooks were appointed to endowed professorships.
Berman, named as the Sylvia and Leonard Marx Class of 1954 Professor in the Practice of Piano, is a renowned pianist who has performed in more than 50 countries on six continents...
Pamela Lee, Mark Peterson, and Brian Scassellati were appointed to endowed professorships.
Lee, named as the Carnegie Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, is an art historian who teaches the history, theory, and criticism of late modernism and...
You may not know early Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov by name, but perhaps you’ve heard of his most famous film, “Man with a Movie Camera.” Released in 1929, this non-narrative silent film illustrates a day in the life of real Soviet city-dwellers without...
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...