Shortly after Pericles Lewis became a full professor in Yale’s Departments of English and Comparative Literature, in 2007, he was recruited by Martin Puchner, a Harvard professor and author, to help ...

King George III died 202 years ago. Why do we still try to talk like him? Professor Sunn m’Cheaux, instructor of Gullah at Harvard University’s African Language Program, asked this question to the ...

Harvard professor and Pulitzer-winning poet Tracy K. Smith delivered the Yale English Department’s annual Foundational Course Lecture to a packed lecture hall on the evening of April 11. The series ...