Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a...
This year the English Department will observe the 300th anniversary of the publication of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe with a series of events for diverse audiences, from young...
As he receives his Ph.D. and moves on to his appointment as the Science Fiction Collections Librarian in the Special Collections and Archives of the University of Liverpool...
J.D. McClatchy was posthumously honored with the joseph W. Gordon Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Arts and Sciences by Phi Beta Kappa Society at their annuak...
Janice Carlisle was presented with the William Clyde DeVane Medal for outstanding scholarship and undergraduate teaching by the Phi Beta Kappa Society at their annual dinner...
Jill Campbell was awarded the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss ’75 Prize for teaching excellence in the humanities at a ceremony held May 8 at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and...
Professor’s curiosity sparks literary course on animal life and consciousness
It was with the proverbial curiosity of a cat that Yale professor Jonathan Kramnick designed his...
