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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

One year ago, the public debate over the new Common Core standards in education centered on the fate of literature in English classes. Critics charged that the standards risked crowding out ...

Students in Lora Pirrello’s 12th grade Advanced Placement English Literature class were tasked to create a playlist of songs thematically related to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Once ...

When most people hear the term premedical classes, they think about the chemistry, physics and biology courses that medical schools require students to complete prior to matriculation. The fact that ...

The first day of class has an immemorial feel to it, an air of familiar routines eternally renewed. It’s just about noon on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, the start of spring semester. I am standing at the ...

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.