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October 10, 2025
Jessica Brantley, Professor of English, and Kim Shirkhani, Senior Lecturer in English, co-led a national seminar for the 2025 program of the Yale National Initiative to...
October 8, 2025
Naomi Levine’s The Burden of Rhyme is a highly original and luminously written reframing of Victorian literary history, one that promises to shape our understanding of...
September 29, 2025
The Yale Daily News Magazine is thrilled to publish the winners of the 2025 Wallace Prize. In memory of Peter J. Wallace ’64, a former member of the Yale Daily News editorial...
September 25, 2025
Marcel Elias is the editor of the September 2025 special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. The issue is entitled New Directions in Medieval...
September 22, 2025
We are delighted to announce the 2025 Stansky Book Prize shortlist! The committee has selected the following four books for the 2025 Stansky Book Prize shortlist for the...
September 18, 2025
Vanishing Acts by Cynthia Zarin, from Estate, is featured in the October issue of Harper’s Magazine: When did I become interested in disappearance? In November 1961,...
September 11, 2025
Knights! Swords! Fighting!  A medieval fencing manual that is still consulted today. We have all seen sword fights on film, on TV, in games. But what was medieval fencing...