News
June 15, 2023
“The absence of meaning is a kind of meaning, isn’t it?”
So asks Percival Everett in his essay “Abstraction and Nonsense: The Real in Fiction (link is external),” published...
March 10, 2023
We’re proud to share that Cajetan Iheka, the incoming director of the Whitney Humanities Center, has been awarded the 2023 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for African...
February 7, 2023
We’re delighted to share the news that our Fall 2021 and Spring 2023 Finzi-Contini lecturers, Namwali Serpell and Percival Everett, are finalists for the National Book...
November 1, 2022
With the aim of helping scholars in the humanities navigate the publication process—from first article to first book and beyond—the Whitney Humanities Center is launching a...
October 20, 2022
The New York Times has published a guest essay by author Sheila Heti, our Fall 2022 Franke Visiting Fellow, on Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature....
September 6, 2022
Seven Ph.D. students from across the humanities will join Yale this fall as the second cohort of Whitney Humanities Center Graduate Fellows in the Environmental Humanities....
August 8, 2022
Graduate students are the future of Translation Studies, and their innovative research expands the horizons of this interdisciplinary field. In partnership with the Yale...