The Yale Review, led by Professor in the Practice of English Meghan O'Rourke, has been named the winner of the 2026 National Magazine Award for Fiction.

This edition of Humanitas notes an award for The Yale Review, student achievements — curating an exhibit, pitching a film at Cannes, and winning a reporting trip with The New York Times — and a Yale expert on the history of opera curtains.

Sy, Assistant Professor of English, won the award for his 2025 article “In Repair: Black Hawk’s Graves and Native Reparative Reading.” The prize committee praised Sy’s work as "an example of interdisciplinarity at its best."

Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis recognized four recipients of the college’s annual teaching prizes—who span all three divisions of the FAS—during a campus reception.

In an English and Black Studies course taught by Jonathan Howard, Assistant Professor of Black Studies and of English, students seek new ways to understand humanity’s relation to nature.

The Investigative Reporting Lab at Yale, founded and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Yale professor in the practice Sarah Stillman, supports young journalists in deep reporting for both local and national audiences.

In a new video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Professor in the Practice Sarah Stillman discusses the challenges and joys of teaching investigative journalism.

The Yale Review, led by Professor in the Practice of English Meghan O'Rourke, has been named a finalist for two 2026 National Magazine Awards: General Excellence in Literature, Science and Politics, and the ASME Award for Fiction.

In her latest essay collection, Anne Fadiman, Professor in the Practice of English, draws on nostalgia, loss, and personal passions — including teaching nonfiction writing at Yale.

Smith, who joined the Yale faculty in 2005, is an authority on the culture of discipline in the United States.