This year at Yale, two new literature classes will push the boundaries — cultural, linguistic, and geographic — of what we talk about when we talk about medieval literature. The aims of the classes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When most people hear the term premedical classes, they think about the chemistry, physics and biology courses that medical ...

For College of Arts, Sciences & Education English Assistant Professor Mark Kelley, there’s nothing as exhilarating as being out on the water—the feeling of freedom, the vastness, the intrigue of the ...

Before Michael H. Brown '83-'84 and Alan A. Khazei '83 founded the education non-profit City Year, which supports students at risk nationwide, they were just two students among hundreds enrolled in ...

“What makes good children’s literature?” This is an evolving question that was first posed at the beginning of last fall semester in Eun Chong Yang’s ENG 262 “Children’s Literature” course. Yang, ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

Weekly rounds of hot seat, family artifact show-and-tell sessions and frequent guest lectures are all part of Evanston Township High School’s new Middle Eastern, North African and Asian Literature, or ...

In his 1952 short story “Axolotl,” a reader may find the central fulcrum on which the worlds of Julio Cortázar turn. Here, in this brief story (a mere seven pages in its English translation), Cortázar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's been a sharp drop in the number of students majoring in the humanities. urbazon/E+ via Getty Images Stereotypes abound ...

Peter C. Herman, a professor of English literature at San Diego State University, has been teaching a course that explores the promise and perils of technology in literature for the past five years.