Department News

Bruce Holsinger: “Evovae: Liturgy, Lyric, Lyricism”

Thursday, February 9 in LC 317 at 5 p.m.  The English Department Late-Medieval English Literature Series presents: Bruce Holsinger is  Professor of English and Music, University of Virginia. Professor Holsinger’s books include Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture (2001), which explores the medieval understanding and aesthetic of...

Anne Fadiman- 6th Annual Reading

Thursday, February 9 at 6:00. The New Haven Free Public Library presents: 6th Annual Reading by Anne Fadiman and her studentsThree undergraduate writers (two of them English majors) will join Anne Fadiman, the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale, for an evening of essays: • Alex Klein ‘12 on beekeeping and bee terror • Lauren Oyler ‘12 on a local...

Bill Brown: “Subjects and Objects, Words and Things (The Matter of Modernism in Philip K. Dick)

Tuesday, February 14 at 4:00, LC 317. English Department Lecture Series presents: Bill Brown is Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of English and the visual arts, University of Chicago. His past research has focused on popular literary genres, recreational forms, and the ways that mass-cultural phenomena impress themselves...

Lytle Shaw: “Baraka’s Newark: Performing Black Arts”

Thursday, February 16 at 4:00, LC 319.  The 20/21st Century Colloquiums presents: Lytle Shaw, Associate Professor of English, NYU. He works primarily on American literature with a focus on poetics, art, and theory. Past books include Cable Factory 20, The Lobe, and Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie. He is at work on two book projects: one...

Lawrence Manley: “Eagle and Hound: “The Epitaph of Talbot and the Date of 1 Henry VI”

Thursday, February 16 at 4:00, LC 209.  The Medieval & Renaissance Colloquium presents: Lawrence Manley, Professor of English, Yale University

Yale Daily News Article marks the opening of the “Remembering Shakespeare”

Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Julia Zorthian, staff reporter for the Yale Daily News reported. Today marks the opening of the “Remembering Shakespeare” exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and with it, the unification of books, prints and documents chronicling the Bard’s lasting impression on the world and on Yale. The exhibit...

Simon Gikandi: “Between Realism and Romance: “Rethinking the Problem of the Novel in Africa”

Thursday, March 22 at 4:00, LC 317. The English department presents: Simon Gikandi is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University and editor of PMLA, the official journal of the Modern Languages Association. He was born in Kenya and graduated with a B.A [First Class Honors] in Literature from the University of Nairobi. He went on...

The English Department is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark Schoofs

The English Department is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark Schoofs, Yale class of ’85, to teach Journalism in Spring 2012. He succeeds Jill Abramson, who left our faculty this year when she became editor-in-chief of the New York Times.  Schoofs, currently a senior editor at Pro Publica, is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter with...

Richard Deming named Birkelund Fellow at American Academy in Berlin

Richard Deming, lecturer in English, has been named the 2012 John P. Birkelund Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Deming is a poet and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. During his time at the academy, he will work on the completion of two books, “Everyday Domain: The Ordinary in Art...

SaY 2012

Shakespeare at Yale is a multi-venued celebration for the spring of 2012 that will display the extraordinary resources that exist at the University for the study and enjoyment of Shakespeare. Between the holdings of the Beinecke Library and the Elizabethan Club, Yale has the best collection of early printed editions of Shakespeare of any...