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,...
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...
Judges (Ryan Hediger, Erin James, Robin Murray, Jesse Oak Taylor, and Hsuan Hsu) commented:
“Naturalizing Africa brings together the previously separate conversations of...
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,...
Please join us in welcoming a new faculty member to the Department of English: Cajetan Iheka.
To learn more about his background, research interests, and what he will be...
Congratulations to the English Department graduate student winners of this year’s departmental prizes:
Seo Hee Im: Departmental Prize for the Best Dissertation of the...
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...
