This year marks the intersection of two milestones — the 500th year of the formation of the Venetian Ghetto, the area of Venice where Jews were forced to live under the...
Congratulations to Langdon Hammer, Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English and Department Chair, who has won the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography for his James...
Langdon Hammer, newly named as the Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English, is a literary scholar, biographer, and critic who studies modern and contemporary poetry and poetics...
A recent Yale News article by Bess Connolly Martel commented that noted poet, essayist, and playwright Claudia Rankine will join the Yale faculty this fall as the Frederick...
In a recent YaleNews article Beth Connolly Martell writes:
“The earliest-known prison memoir penned by an African American was published by Random House on Jan. 26, over 150...
In a recent conversation with Yale Daily News journalist, Bess Connolly Martell, Anthony Reed discussed the field of black experimental writing, his work on “phonographic...
We are delighted to announce that Wai Chee Dimock has been named the Editor of PMLA, succeeding Simon Gikandi.
PMLA is the journal of the Modern Language Association of...
