After a year of broad discussions with students, faculty and the Yale College Committee on Majors, the English Department is pleased to announce a revised set of requirements...
In Spring 2016, members of the New Chaucer Society elected as their new President, long-time Trustee, Ardis Butterfield (John M. Schiff Professor of English, Professor of...
A recent review by Seamus Perry in the Times Literary Supplement of the late John Hollander’s The Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History (edited by...
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...