From the Quadrangle
November 4, 2024 | Emily Theus
Early this fall, members of the new Textile Working Group joined staff and volunteers at the Yale Farm to harvest Japanese indigo, gathering about fifty pounds of unassuming green plant matter. Over the following weeks, under the experienced care of...
June 6, 2024 | Megan O'Donnell
Deep beneath the neon frenzy of Times Square, a group of students, professors, and Dante aficionados turned a bustling transit hub into an impromptu stage for medieval poetry. Last semester, the Dante Working Group, a student-led association...
May 1, 2024 | Maria Teresa Borneo
On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature, by Morgane Cadieu (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Morgane Cadieu, associate professor of French, specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and...
March 25, 2024 | Mikhail Moosa
In a world that favors data, what value do the arts and humanities hold?
This question animates Rob Nixon’s approach to environmental justice in his upcoming Tanner Lectures on Human Values, “Ecology and Equity: Environmental Justice...
March 11, 2024 | Megan O'Donnell
“You don’t need an introduction from a fancy person to pitch your book,” declared Sharmila Sen, Editorial Director and Director of Special Initiatives at Harvard University Press, during a public lunch event at Yale University on Monday, February 26...
February 13, 2024 | Megan O'Donnell
Balkan choral music set the stage for literary translator Angela Rodel (SM ’96) to discuss Bulgarian fiction. The Yale Slavic Chorus filled the Alice Cinema with bright, melodic harmonies sung in Bulgarian, and Rodel, a former member of the chorus...
November 6, 2023 | Shwetant Kumar
“The Earth has its own rhythms: it’s almost as if we’re inside a song, and we’re a bass line or a drum or a voice,” says Snow Raven (SUOR), a performer and entrepreneur from the indigenous shamanic Sakha community from Arctic Siberia. Her audience...
October 27, 2023 | Maria Teresa Borneo
In December 1924, a group of scholars dedicated to the scientific study of language founded the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Among them was Leonard Bloomfield, who later became Sterling Professor of Linguistics at Yale. But how did this...
October 6, 2023 | Mikhail Moosa
“It all started with a tweet.”
When Archer Neilson, program coordinator for the Yale Film Archive, posted a photo of Ousmane Sembène on the centenary of his birth, she could not have anticipated the interest it would generate from around the world...
October 4, 2023 | Mikhail Moosa
Filmmaker Craig Bettendorf first heard of John Boswell, an openly gay Yale professor and a pioneer of LGBTQ studies, from an unlikely source: an evangelical Christian talk show. A historian of medieval Christianity, much to the chagrin of the host,...