Division of Humanities
Knowledge from antiquity to the present
The faculty of the FAS Humanities division cover an expansive intellectual terrain. They are experts in history, literature, language, philosophy, and the arts. Their work asks who we are and what we might become as they make new discoveries about the past and present that will shape the future of human culture. Through collaboration, research, and teaching, they initiate conversations around the most pressing questions that humankind has addressed from antiquity to the present.
The divisional dean of the Humanities is Marc Robinson.
Humanities departments and programs
The FAS's 20+ humanities units cover the range of human knowledge: from English to Classics; from History of Art to Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; from the world's languages and literatures to History. In addition, several programs are cross-divisional, bridging Humanities and Social Science.
News
FAS Professor Marlene L. Daut Named 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner
Marlene L. Daut has been named a co-winner of the twenty-sixth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
Riding a ‘Wave’: Yale’s expansion of Korean language and cultural studies
Across the university, rising interest in Korean language and culture has brought new course offerings and faculty who specialize in the region.
Biggs Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian Prize
Biggs, Deputy Editor of the Yale Review, is nominated for a prize honoring excellence in reviewing.
Bertino's Beautyland Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Awards
Bertino, Ritvo-Slifka Writer-in-Residence and Lecturer in English, has received numerous accolades and awards for her novel Beautyland.
Becoming better thinkers through art and culture
How does architecture affect the way we live? Does it influence our health and our healing? Fatima Naqvi, the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of German and Film Studies in the FAS, explores these questions in her new book. She looks at how writers and directors portray the architecture of hospitals and describe their experience from the 1880s to the present. Naqvi’s scholarship lies at the intersection of architecture, literature, and film. She argues that by experiencing culture and the arts, we become better thinkers in ways that are difficult to quantify but nevertheless profound.
FAS Humanities contacts
- FAS Dean of Humanities; Malcolm G. Chace '56 Professor of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies and English; Professor of American Studies; Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism
- FAS Dean's Office
- Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (Program)
- English
- American Studies (Program)
- Senior Associate Dean; Dean of Faculty Affairs
- FAS Dean's Office