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English undergraduate majors Samantha Liu, Aanika Eragam, and Alex Moore had a strong second place finish at the 12th New Haven Spelling Bee on October 25, 2024. Learn more...
Every part of Norman Holmes Pearson had an unusual shape. He was recalled by one of his English students at Yale as a “black-browed, black-mustached man” with a “grotesquely...
The Burden of Rhyme shows how the nineteenth-century search for the origin of rhyme shaped the theory and practice of poetry. For Victorians, rhyme was not (as it was for the...
Why do we find stories about vampires, from “Dracula” to ”Twilight,” so compelling? Watch Heather Klemann discuss vampires here. Happy Halloween!