The Common Room at Yale

Sarah Pearl Heard '18 visits the Common Room to discuss how she came to Yale without losin... more

Associate Professor Marta Figlerowicz talks about how meme culture is like Roman pantomime... more

Rob Long '87 is a writer, television producer, and political commentator who has written f... more

Professor John Durham Peters explains why the weather is wonderful, and reflects on religi... more

Assistant Professor Alanna Hickey describes how 19th-century books with humanitarian aims ... more

Writer, poet, and editor Meghan O'Rourke discusses the joys of editing and her goals as th... more

Assistant Professor Marcel Elias talks about why some Medieval crusaders converted to Isla... more

Senior Kyung Mi (Kiki) Lee, the DE&I Committee's first undergraduate representative, share... more

Feisal Mohamed talks about poetry, tyrannicide, and how a case of bad breath led to the fa... more

Anne Fadiman, Francis Writer in Residence, talks growing up the child of authors, and shar... more

Pulitzer-winning author and senior lecturer Michael Cunningham discusses his winding path ... more

English and African American Studies double major Rebecca Amonor '21 talks about her spiri... more

PhD student Cirũ Wainaina describes the importance of mentoring black women undergraduates... more

Sophomore student and poet Anna Ibrahim powerfully describes how the lack of recognition o... more

Luta Fast Dog ES '21 and Anna Smist BR '21 discuss how they've showcased Native American a... more

English Department Registrar Erica Sayers talks about her wide-ranging education, and offe... more

Assistant Professor Priyasha Mukhopadhyay drops by the Common Room to discuss the conteste... more

Kadiatou Keita is a junior in Branford College. She's a part of the <a href='https://www.i... more

Richard Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist, as well as the Director of Creative Wr... more

Associate Professor Cajetan Iheka offers his coming-to-America and academia story, describ... more