The Common Room at Yale

The Common Room at Yale

By Yale Department of English | Diversity, Equity, and InclusionEducation
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The Common Room at Yale episodes

  • Stephanie Newell

    Professor Steph Newell talks about how she became interested in African literature, and how a nine-year-old girl in Lagos transformed the way she researched urban cultures.

     

    Her most recent book is Histories of Dirt in West Africa.

     

     

    The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; editing and sound design by Robert Scaramuccia '19. 

    9 min
  • Derek Green

    Fiction writer and Yale lecturer Derek Green discusses his winding path to Yale, how writers read, and why his upcoming novel, about a Midwestern militia, feels more like nonfiction every day. His most recent book is New World Order.

     

     

    The Common Room is a production of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the Yale Department of English. Cover art by Sarah Harford; editing and sound design by Robert Scaramuccia '19. 

    9 min

About The Common Room at Yale

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In this series, we drop into the Zoom rooms of faculty, staff, and students in the Yale Department of English to discuss their work, how they came to be at Yale, and what drives them.