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November 26, 2019
Lily Moore-Eissenberg, from Harvard, Massachusetts, is completing double majors in English and Philosophy. As a writer and philosopher, her work centers on analyzing the...
November 22, 2019
Ashley James has been named associate curator of contemporary art at the Guggenheim Museum, making her the first black curator to work at the museum full-time. James, who...
October 15, 2019
Harold Bloom GRD ’56, a Sterling Professor of English, author of over 40 books and an iconic defender of the Western canon, died on Monday at the age of 89 at a New Haven...
October 8, 2019
We are thrilled to announce that Susan Choi–Lecturer in English (and Yale alumna)—has been awarded the 2019 National Book Award in Fiction for her acclaimed novel,...
September 26, 2019
Undergraduate poets are invited to participate in a poetry contest, the winner of which would enter a state-wide contest. If our Yale contestant emerges as one of the winners...
Naturalizing Africa
July 17, 2019
Judges (Ryan Hediger, Erin James, Robin Murray, Jesse Oak Taylor, and Hsuan Hsu) commented: “Naturalizing Africa brings together the previously separate conversations of...
Marie Borroff
July 11, 2019
Along with the rest of the university and the field of literary studies, the Yale Department of English mourns the passing of one of its own: Sterling Professor Emeritus,...