Alastair Minnis, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, has been elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Membership of this body is the highest academic...
The 2016 MacArthur Fellows have been announced, with our very own Claudia Rankine and Sarah Stillman among this distinguished list. Claudia and Sarah both joined our faculty...
Louise Glück, acclaimed poet and the Rosencrantz Writer in Residence at Yale, is among the 12 distinguished recipients of the 2015 National Humanities Medals. President...
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...
