While Northwestern course offerings may sometimes seem mundane, a class featuring case studies of Taylor Swift’s music is sure to turn heads. Medill sophomore Olivia Teeter said she was scrolling ...

Twice a year, in courtrooms across Massachusetts, regular proceedings are temporarily put on hold for graduation ceremonies. Recently in Dorchester District Court, Judge David Weingarten opened the ...

“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, ...

As public schools statewide prepare to institute African-American studies courses, New Haven Academy’s Kelly K. Hope and her students are already on the case. Hope and the students in her ...

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 ...

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 ...

In every field, the answer to the question of diversity tends to hinge on questions of representation. With the arts and media especially, there’s the question of seeing a version of oneself (or one’s ...

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 ...