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student awards wreath
June 4, 2015
The English Department is pleased to announce the graduate student award winners of 2014-2015! Prize Teaching Fellowship: Anya Adair Beinecke Pre-Dissertation Fellowship:...
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 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 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...
April 23, 2015
A salute to Anne Fadiman, Francis Writer-in-Residence, on her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Anne joins Larry Manley and Michael Warner among recent...
April 6, 2015
The Renaissance Society of America has awarded Lawrence Manley and his co-author Sally-Beth MacLean (University of Toronto) the 2015 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize...
Louise Glück
November 20, 2014
A new collection of poetry written by Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), has won the 2014 National Book Award. This collection from...