Faculty News

January 16, 2015
excited to announce that our colleague Elizabeth Alexander has been elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, along with Linda Gregerson and Alicia Suskin...
January 16, 2015
Elizabeth Alexander, newly named as the inaugural Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry, is a noted poet, essayist, and scholar of African-American poetry, drama, and 20th-...
Louise Glück
November 20, 2014
A new collection of poetry written by Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), has won the 2014 National Book Award. This collection from...
October 13, 2014
A symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Geoffrey Hartman’s Wordsworth’s Poetry: 1787-1814. Saturday, November 8, 2014 The Whitney Humanities...
September 5, 2014
The English Department is delighted to announce the appointment of several new faculty members this fall. Please shop their classes, say “hi” in the halls of LC, and...
May 1, 2014
Congratulations to Louise Glück , Rosenkranz Writer in Residence, Adjunct Professor of English, who has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the nation’s...
April 23, 2014
We are pleased to announce that three of the six Yale College prizes awarded in recognition of distinguished undergraduate teaching have gone to faculty members in English...