“Indeed, being in the first class of women at Yale College taught me a key lesson that has informed every stage of my career ever since: paradigms exist to be challenged.”
Author: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Shelley Fisher Fishkin is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of American Studies at Stanford University. One of the First Women who entered Yale in 1969, she represented her class—1971—as a narrator for the Commemorative Program held at Yale on Saturday, September 21, 2019.
Writing Resistance: Literature as the Antidote to Despair
We are also a nation that has produced gifted writers able to unmask ignorance, corruption, hypocrisy and knee-jerk nationalism—often with a faith that recognizing these alarming flaws is a first step towards becoming the kind of society that rejects them.