Ruth Bernard Yeazell is a scholar of the novel whose work has focused more on the visual arts than the average literary critic’s. She has written for The New York Review not...
English undergraduate majors Samantha Liu, Aanika Eragam, and Alex Moore had a strong second place finish at the 12th New Haven Spelling Bee on October 25, 2024.
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Every part of Norman Holmes Pearson had an unusual shape. He was recalled by one of his English students at Yale as a “black-browed, black-mustached man” with a “grotesquely...
The Burden of Rhyme shows how the nineteenth-century search for the origin of rhyme shaped the theory and practice of poetry. For Victorians, rhyme was not (as it was for the...
Why do we find stories about vampires, from “Dracula” to ”Twilight,” so compelling?
Watch Heather Klemann discuss vampires here.
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English Professor and African-American Studies scholar Shane Vogel and curator Melissa Barton discuss the Harlem Renaissance in the New York Times
As the period flourished...
In a new memoir and poetry collection, FAS lecturer Danielle Chapman uses fierce empathy and a moral imagination to come to terms with personal and historical tragedy.
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