News

June 1, 2015
The Department of English is pleased to announce that Louise Glück has won the Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Academy describes the history of...
May 27, 2015
“In his research, Yale English Professor David Bromwich writes about modern and Romantic poetry as well as the history of literary criticism. He has also taught an...
May 27, 2015
May 27, 2015 How the Irish Became the World’s Leading Gay Activists; Defying conventional wisdom, the huge win by the Yes Equality campaign involved young and old,...
May 26, 2015
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime is described by Bloom as “about the dozen creators who have formed the American Sublime… . These writers...
May 20, 2015
William Zinsser, former faculty member in English and master of Branford College, who taught nonfiction writing at Yale in the 1970s and whose influence continues in today...
May 19, 2015
Susan Choi was born in South Bend, Ind., and raised there and in Houston, Texas. She studied literature at Yale University and writing at Cornell University, and worked for...
April 29, 2015
As reported in Yale News, Catherine Nicholson was awarded the Sarai Ribicoff ’75 Award for Teaching Excellence in Yale College at a campus ceremony on April 27th along with...