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May 9, 2022
Taking the pervasive but critically under-discussed theme of expatriation as its focus, The Irish Expatriate Novel situates contemporary Irish writing in a shifting world...
May 6, 2022
“Stephanie Newell, professor of English and interim chair, Council on African Studies, your students are dazzled by your ability to challenge them, intellectually and...
April 29, 2022
Among the legendary figures whose stories Giovanni Boccaccio relates in Famous Women (1361–1362) is a Roman virgin named Marcia, who earned her fame as much for her skills as...
April 27, 2022
Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature and Frederick Iseman professor of poetry at Yale, gave this year’s Foundational Lecture at the Yale University Art...
April 21, 2022
In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet’s workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets....
March 29, 2022
Yale alumna Mary-Alice Daniel ’08 decided she wanted be a poet at the age of 17 while listening to a reading of poems by a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize,...
March 22, 2022
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Sara Suleri Goodyear, 68, in Bellingham WA, on March 20th, 2022. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Sara was the daughter of...