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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,...
Cajetan Iheka
July 9, 2019
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...
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July 8, 2019
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...
How Words Make Things Happen
July 1, 2019
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...
Sara Powell showing New Haven students Robinson Crusoe book
June 19, 2019
This year the English Department will observe the 300th anniversary of the publication of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe with a series of events for diverse audiences, from young...
Phoenix Alexander
May 16, 2019
As he receives his Ph.D. and moves on to his appointment as the Science Fiction Collections Librarian in the Special Collections and Archives of the University of Liverpool...
J.D. McClatchy
May 10, 2019
J.D. McClatchy was posthumously honored with the joseph W. Gordon Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Arts and Sciences by Phi Beta Kappa Society at their annuak...