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12-17-2020 |
“A writer of extraordinary accomplishment and humanity, Dinaw Mengestu has brought signal openness, growth, and energy to the Written Arts Program at Bard since his arrival in 2016,” said Bard’s Dean of the College, Deirdre D’Albertis. Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Foundation Award, was born in Ethiopia and raised in Illinois. His fiction and journalism have been published in the New Yorker, Granta, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, and New York Times. Mengestu was chosen for the 5 under 35 Award by the National Book Foundation and was named on the New Yorker’s “20 under 40” list in 2010. He is also the recipient of a Lannan Fiction Fellowship, The Guardian First Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other awards. He is the author of three novels: The Beautiful Things, That Heaven Bears (2008), How to Read the Air (2010), and All Our Names (2014). His work has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Mengestu has a BA from Georgetown University and an MFA from Columbia University. He has been at Bard since 2016. About Bard College Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place estate, Bard’s campus consists of nearly 1,000 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; graduate degrees in 11 programs; eight early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 160-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at our main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu. # # # 12/17/20https://writtenarts.bard.edu/ Photo: Dinaw Mengestu, photo by Michael Lionstar
Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Literature Program,Division of Languages and Literature | |
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12-01-2020 |
Conjunctions:75, Dispatches from Solitude Features New Work from Sandra Cisneros, H. G. Carrillo, Forrest Gander, Helena María Viramontes, Bennett Sims, Colin Channer, Rikki Ducornet, Kyoko Mori, John Yau, Charles Bernstein, Marc Anthony Richardson, Clare Beams, Brandon Hobson, Michael Ives, Nathaniel Mackey, and Rick Moody While plagues have historically fostered every kind of loss—of freedom, of livelihood, of hope, of life itself—the isolation of grim eras such as the one we are now experiencing can also provoke introspection, fresh curiosity, and, with luck and mettle, singular creativity. Conjunctions:75, Dispatches from Solitude—the latest issue of the innovative literary magazine published by Bard College—gathers fiction, poetry, essays, and genre-bending work from writers far and wide who—despite the deficits of quarantine, self-isolation, and distancing—are closely bonded by a shared embrace of the written word and its ineffable powers of expression. Edited by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow, Dispatches from Solitude features two previously unpublished songs by Sandra Cisneros, recipient of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature; a new short story by 2020 Bard Fiction Prize winner Clare Beams; recent fiction by the late H. G. Carrillo; and new writing by Forrest Gander, Helena María Viramontes, Bennett Sims, Colin Channer, Rikki Ducornet, Kyoko Mori, John Yau, Charles Bernstein, Marc Anthony Richardson, Brandon Hobson, Michael Ives, Nathaniel Mackey, and Rick Moody. In his Editor’s Note, Morrow describes how plans for an entirely different fall issue, States of Play, were dashed as the coronavirus pandemic took over. “As hundreds, then thousands, began to die—among them dear friends of mine, such as Conjunctions donor Jay Hanus and longtime contributor H. G. Carrillo—New York and other cities were forced into lockdown,” writes Morrow. “COVID-19 became the daily and nightly shadow that fell across our lives. Amid this harrowing outbreak, another, more urgent theme for the fall Conjunctions became imperative, one where we might gather writing from those who were compelled to change their daily routines, even reevaluate what their work and lives meant to them. Contributions didn’t necessarily have to be about the pandemic, as such, but shaped by its constraints, by the terrors and courage it has provoked.” Additional contributors to Dispatches from Solitude include Jane Pek, Meredith Stricker, Barbara Tran, David Ryan, Gillian Conoley, Yxta Maya Murray, Anne Waldman, Vanessa Chan, Cyan James, Cindy Juyoung Ok, Alyssa Pelish, Erin L. McCoy, Alan Rossi, John Darcy, Rae Armantrout, Sylvia Legris, and Susan Daitch. The Washington Post says, “Conjunctions offers a showplace for some of the most exciting and demanding writers now at work.” Edited by Bradford Morrow and published twice yearly by Bard College, Conjunctions publishes innovative fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by emerging voices and contemporary masters. For nearly four decades, Conjunctions has challenged accepted forms and styles, with equal emphasis on groundbreaking experimentation and rigorous execution. In 2020, Conjunctions received the prestigious Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. The judges noted, “Every issue of Conjunctions is a feat of curatorial invention, continuing the Modernist project of dense, economical writing, formal innovation, and an openness to history and the world.” Named a “Top Literary Magazine 2019” by Reedsy, the journal was a finalist for both the 2018 and 2019 ASME Award for Fiction and the 2018 CLMP Firecracker Award for General Excellence. In addition, contributions to recent issues have been selected for The Best American Essays (2018, 2019), The Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Best Small Fictions 2019, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019. For more information on the latest issue, please visit conjunctions.com/print/archive/conjunctions75. To order a copy, go to annandaleonline.org/conjunctions, call the Conjunctions office at 845-758-7054, e-mail conjunctions@bard.edu, or write to Conjunctions, Bard College, PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000. Visit the Conjunctions website at conjunctions.com. [Note to editors: To obtain review copies, please call Mark Primoff at 845-758-7412 or e-mail primoff@bard.edu] # # # (12.1.20)http://www.conjunctions.com/ Meta: Subject(s): Literature Program,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Conjunctions | |
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12-01-2020 |
“Akil Kumarasamy’s Half-Gods is a breathtaking debut by one of those rare writers whose compassionate understanding—in this case, a multigenerational family with a frayed, crazy-quilt history—is matched by the narrative gifts necessary to bring her tales to life,” writes the Bard Fiction Prize committee. “While each individual story in this inventive collection is told in vivid, lusciously worded, image-rich prose, the overarching symphonic whole has—much like Jamaica Kincaid’s first book, At the Bottom of the River—the sweep and scope of a novel. What Kumarasamy has given us with Half-Gods is ultimately a meditation, as most great stories are, on time, memory, and hope for the future.” “I’m very excited to receive the Bard Fiction Prize and to be part of the Bard community,” said Kumarasamy. “This has been such a whirlwind of a year, and, during these very uncertain times, I’m grateful for the support and the committee’s belief in my work. Really thrilled by the opportunity.” Akil Kumarasamy is a writer from New Jersey and the author of the story collection, Half Gods, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2018, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was the recipient of the Story Prize Spotlight Award and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, American Short Fiction, Boston Review, among others. She has received fellowships from the University of East Anglia, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is an assistant professor at the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and her debut novel, Better Humans, is forthcoming with Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The creation of the Bard Fiction Prize, presented each October since 2001, continues Bard’s longstanding position as a center for creative, groundbreaking literary work by both faculty and students. From Saul Bellow, William Gaddis, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison to John Ashbery, Philip Roth, William Weaver, and Chinua Achebe, Bard’s literature faculty, past and present, represents some of the most important writers of our time. The prize is intended to encourage and support young writers of fiction, and provide them with an opportunity to work in a fertile intellectual environment. Last year’s Bard Fiction Prize was awarded to Author Clare Beams for her debut collection of short stories, We Show What We Have Learned (Lookout Books, 2016). About the Bard Fiction Prize The Bard Fiction Prize is awarded to a promising emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application. In addition to a $30,000 cash award, the winner receives an appointment as writer in residence at Bard College for one semester, without the expectation that he or she teach traditional courses. The recipient gives at least one public lecture and meets informally with students. To apply, candidates should write a cover letter explaining the project they plan to work on while at Bard and submit a CV, along with three copies of the published book they feel best represents their work. No manuscripts will be accepted. Applications for the 2022 prize must be received by June 15, 2021. For information about the Bard Fiction Prize, call 845-758-7087, send an e-mail to bfp@bard.edu, or visit bard.edu/bfp. Applicants may also request information by writing to: Bard Fiction Prize, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000. About Bard College Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place estate, Bard’s campus consists of nearly 1,000 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; graduate degrees in 11 programs; eight early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 160-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at our main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu. # # # 12/1/20https://www.bard.edu/bfp/ Photo: Akil Kumarasamy, photo by Nina Subin
Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Literature Program,Division of Languages and Literature,Awards | Institutes(s): Conjunctions | |
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September 2020 |
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09-16-2020 |
“Every issue of Conjunctions is a feat of curatorial invention, continuing the Modernist project of dense, economical writing, formal innovation, and an openness to history and the world,” the Whiting judges commented. “Its longevity is a testament to its cultural staying power. Organized around a unifying idea, each issue stitches together work by storytellers and scholars to create a fluid and expansive survey of our most pressing human concerns.” “The 2020 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize could not have come at a more significant time for Conjunctions, which will be celebrating its fortieth anniversary in the coming year,” said Bradford Morrow, Editor of Conjunctions and professor of literature at Bard. “The pandemic has inflicted unprecedented challenges on all of us, including literary journals and writers, and thanks to the Whiting Foundation, Conjunctions will be able to continue publishing both our print and online journals without interruption. This grant will enable us to broaden and deepen our ongoing search for innovative poetry, fiction, essays, and multi-genre works by those who write fearlessly, and greatly strengthen our outreach to those who, as we at Conjunctions like to say, read dangerously.” Morrow gave special thanks to those who supported Conjunctions’ Whiting application. “I want to take the opportunity also to express my gratitude to our former managing editor, Nicole Nyhan, for all her hard work on the application to the Whiting Foundation,” he said. “And to the three writers who shall remain unnamed, my thanks for graciously writing letters of support on our behalf.” The Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes were launched in 2018 to acknowledge, reward, and encourage the publications that are actively nurturing the writers who tell us, through their art, what is important. The purpose of the prizes is first and foremost to recognize excellence, and also to help outstanding magazines reach new audiences, find new sources of revenue, and travel the path to sustainability and growth. The matching grants in years two and three are intended to give these publications enough runway to make serious progress toward achieving these goals. For more information about the Whiting Foundation, visit whiting.org. Edited by Bradford Morrow and published twice yearly by Bard College, Conjunctions publishes innovative fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by emerging voices and contemporary masters. For nearly four decades, Conjunctions has challenged accepted forms and styles, with equal emphasis on groundbreaking experimentation and rigorous execution. The Washington Post says, “Conjunctions offers a showplace for some of the most exciting and demanding writers now at work.” Named a “Top Literary Magazine 2019” by Reedsy, the journal was a finalist for both the 2018 and 2019 ASME Award for Fiction and the 2018 CLMP Firecracker Award for General Excellence. In addition, contributions to recent issues have been selected for The Best American Essays (2018, 2019), The Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Best Small Fictions 2019, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019. For more information on the latest issue, please visit conjunctions.com/print/archive/conjunctions74. To order a copy, go to annandaleonline.org/conjunctions, call the Conjunctions office at 845-758-7054, e-mail conjunctions@bard.edu, or write to Conjunctions, Bard College, PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000. Visit the Conjunctions website at conjunctions.com. [Note to editors: To obtain review copies, please call Mark Primoff at 845-758-7412 or e-mail primoff@bard.edu.] http://www.conjunctions.com/ Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Literature Program,Guest Author,Faculty,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Conjunctions | |
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July 2020 |
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07-28-2020 |
“I’m really honored to have received the Gilman Scholarship,” says Max. “As someone who’s barely traveled outside their home region of New England, studying abroad has been a dream of mine for quite some time.” Max had originally planned to study abroad this fall, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic he chose to defer his plans to the spring and return to Annandale instead. This fall, he’s taking “a nice smorgasbord of courses,” ranging from The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre to Contagion: Rumor, Heresy, Disease, and Financial Panic. Outside the classroom, he’ll continue his work as a Peer Counselor, campus tour guide, and Bard nursery school aide—“You can see I wear many hats on campus!” “Regardless of how my semester abroad may be altered due to the pandemic, I am very excited,” Max says. “Beyond the City of Light, I really want to hop a train to Salzburg at some point and take the ‘Sound of Music’ tour—provided travel restrictions have loosened up by then!” https://www.gilmanscholarship.org/program/program-overview/ Photo: Bard College student Maxwell Toth ’22
Meta: Subject(s): French Studies,Division of Social Studies,Division of Languages and Literature,Bard Abroad | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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May 2020 |
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05-06-2020 |
“The members of the class of 2020 have excelled in laboratories and lecture halls, they have amazed on concert stages and in surgical suites, and they have led in board rooms and courtrooms,” said Academy President David W. Oxtoby. “With today’s election announcement, these new members are united by a place in history and by an opportunity to shape the future through the Academy’s work to advance the public good.” Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has won numerous awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, “widely regarded as the most prestigious international literary award after the Nobel” (New York Times). Educated at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Works include two trilogies, Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship and Blood in the Sun, and several novels, novellas, short stories, plays. In recent years he has been a perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is Distinguished Professor of Literature at Bard College. PHOTO CAPTION: Bard College Distinguished Professor of Literature Nuruddin Farah has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. PHOTO CREDIT: Jeremy Wilson # About the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.” # https://amacad.org Photo: Credit: Jeremy Wilson
Meta: Subject(s): Literature Program,Human Rights,Faculty,Division of Languages and Literature,Middle Eastern Studies | |
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05-01-2020 |
https://suigeneris.bard.edu/ Photo: Sui Generis Spring 2020 cover, detail.
Meta: Subject(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program,Division of Languages and Literature,Classical Studies Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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April 2020 |
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04-21-2020 |
Aven's family loves to come together over a good meal. "My mom is a really good cook," Aven says, "so food is big for us!" The family has been cooking together, including recently homemade pizza, cod and lobster soup, and tofu curry with naan. The pandemic has brought Aven and her extended family together, as well; they're keeping in touch by blogging about their day-to-day lives. Aven also stays in touch with her host family in Paris, from when she studied abroad during her gap year. This crisis has allowed them to talk more and feel more connected as they all face many of the same challenges. "I feel like we are able to be more empathetic toward each other," Aven says. Aven tries to incorporate some of her life at Bard into her new routine at home. She is looking forward to joining the new Bard Bookworm Club, which has started meeting online. She misses playing with the Bard Frisbee team but she enlists her family to play in their backyard. Aven finds hope and connection in social media. "I can see that everyone is coming together. I've been enjoying online concerts, too." Overall Aven is “proud of how Vermont is handling the crisis” and she loves that she is able to connect with her friends on apps such as House Party, which allows large video calls and the ability to play games together. Aven is not taking her time home for granted and she is grateful to have a loving support system in her family and her Bard community. Photo: Bard College sophomore Aven Williams.
Meta: Subject(s): Literature Program,Division of Languages and Literature,Bard Connects | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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04-14-2020 |
Masha Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of eleven books of nonfiction, most recently Surviving Autocracy, which will be published in June. Gessen’s previous book, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Gessen has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, a Nieman Fellow, and has received an honorary doctorate from the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY. Gessen has taught at Amherst College and Oberlin College. They live in New York City. PHOTO CAPTION: Bard College announces the appointment of award-winning author Masha Gessen to the faculty. PHOTO CREDIT: Lena Di # About Bard College Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place estate, Bard’s campus consists of nearly 1,000 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; graduate degrees in 11 programs; nine early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 159-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at our main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu. ### Photo: Masha Gessen. Photo by Lena Di
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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04-13-2020 |
More than 40 Bard faculty members have received Guggenheim fellowships to date. Previous recipients from Bard College include Mark Danner, Ittai Weinryb, Nancy Shaver, Lothar Osterburg, Peggy Ahwesh, JoAnne Akalaitas, Peter Hutton, Ann Lauterbach, An-My Lê, Norman Manea, Daniel Mendelsohn, Bradford Morrow, Judy Pfaff, Luc Sante, Stephen Shore, Mona Simpson, and Joan Tower. Valeria Luiselli is the author of the award-winning novels The Story of My Teeth (2015) and Faces in the Crowd (2013), and the books of essays Sidewalks (2013) and Tell Me How It Ends (2017). Her most recent novel, Lost Children Archive (Knopf), won the 2020 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the American Academy for Arts and Letters’ Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, and the Folio Prize. It was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the NBCC award, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Luiselli received the 2020 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature, and is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. Her literary work has been translated to over 20 languages and has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, New Yorker, Granta, and Harper's. Luiselli has worked as a volunteer translator in the Federal Immigration court, translating testimonies of asylum-seeking undocumented minors, and conducted creative writing workshops in a detention center for undocumented minors. She has taught at Bard College since 2019 and is working on a sound piece about violence against land and bodies in the borderlands. # About the Guggenheim Fellowship Program Since its establishment in 1925, the Foundation has granted more than $360 million in Fellowships to over 18,000 individuals, among whom are scores of Nobel laureates, Fields Medalists, poets laureate, members of the various national academies, and winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Turing Award, National Book Awards, and other important, internationally recognized honors. The Guggenheim Fellowship program remains a significant source of support for artists, scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and scientific researchers. New and continuing donations from friends, Trustees, former Fellows, and other foundations have ensured that the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation will be able to continue its historic mission. The Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation is once again underwriting the Fellowship in Constitutional Studies, and a grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music is supporting supplemental grants for composers. For more information on the Fellows and their projects, please visit the Foundation’s website at www.gf.org. # https://www.gf.org Photo: Valeria Luiselli. Photo by Alfredo Pelcastre
Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Division of Languages and Literature | |
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March 2020 |
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03-22-2020 |
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Division of Languages and Literature,Classical Studies Program | |
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03-21-2020 |
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Division of Languages and Literature,Classical Studies Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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February 2020 |
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02-24-2020 |
https://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=16614 Photo: Carole Maso
Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Division of the Arts,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Conjunctions | |
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02-14-2020 |
Using Orwell’s Down and Out to Understand and Write Histories of Homelessness Then and NowBard College presents its annual Eugene Meyer Lecture in British History and Literature, with Nick Crowson, Chair in Contemporary British History at the University of Birmingham. The lecture takes place in the Lásló Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium (Room 103) of the Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation on Tuesday, February 18, at 4:45 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.What does George Orwell's classic account of homeless living in London during the interwar years offer the historian? Where should we locate this semi-fictionalised account in the tradition of the incognito social investigator? Professor Crowson's lecture will address these questions and ask how Orwell helps us understand the physical manifestations of homelessness in modern Britain. In doing so, he shows how historians can play a crucial role in facilitating better, historically-informed public discourse around homelessness. Nick Crowson holds the Chair in Contemporary British History at the University of Birmingham. The author and editor of many books, including Facing Fascism: The Conservative Party and the European Dictators 1935–40; Britain and Europe: A Political History since 1918; and A Historical Guide to NGOs in Britain: Charities, Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector since 1945, he is writing a new history of homelessness in modern Britain seeking to integrate the lived experience with the policy responses. His research is widely used by a range of policy and cultural organisations, including Crisis, Shelter, the Museum of Homelessness and the Cardboard Citizens Theatre Company. This annual lecture forms part of the endowment of the Chair in British History and Literature that was established in 2010 to commemorate Eugene Meyer (1875–1959)—the owner and publisher of the Washington Post, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and first President of the World Bank. The endowment has given Bard the opportunity to extend its commitment to teaching and research in modern British studies. Professor Richard Aldous holds the Eugene Meyer Chair. Photo courtesy Peter Berthoud. Photo: Homeless man asleep on a bench, the Embankment in the City of London, mid 1930s. Courtesy Peter Berthoud
Meta: Subject(s): Literature Program,Historical Studies Program,Division of Social Studies,Division of Languages and Literature | |
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January 2020 |
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01-29-2020 |
Beams received the Bard Fiction Prize for her debut collection of short stories, We Show What We Have Learned (Lookout Books 2016). Her newest book, The Illness Lesson (Doubleday 2020), will be released on February 11. Beams’ residency at Bard College is for the fall 2020 semester, during which time she will continue her writing and meet informally with students. The Bard Fiction Prize committee writes: “The nine stories in Clare Beams’ debut collection of fiction, We Show What We Have Learned, range from factual, historical settings and characters to eerily fantastical ones, displaying a startling depth and an epic scale of imagination. While the characters, and the situations they find themselves in, are sometimes surreal, their psychologies are always absolutely real—fully, compassionately drawn. Every one of these stories has a world and a lifetime behind it, and every one is a compelling, disquieting, and immensely pleasurable journey, reverie, and dream for its reader. Clare Beams is a subtle, quiet master of short fiction, who writes in beautiful and exquisitely crafted prose.” “I am so much more grateful to Bard and to the Bard Fiction Prize committee than I can possibly say for this recognition of my work and for this gift—one of the best gifts anyone could give me, as a writer who’s also a parent of young children—of time. To join this list of winners, so many who are heroes and heroines of mine, is an honor, and to join the inspiring Bard community is a thrill. I can’t wait to meet the students and faculty and work on my third book, a new novel, in their midst,” says Beams. Clare Beams is the author of the story collection We Show What We Have Learned, which was a Kirkus Best Debut of 2016 and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. Her first novel, The Illness Lesson, will be published by Doubleday in February of 2020. Her fiction appears in One Story, n+1, Ecotone, The Common, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere, and she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and two daughters, and has taught creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University and St. Vincent College. The creation of the Bard Fiction Prize, presented each October since 2001, continues Bard’s long-standing position as a center for creative, groundbreaking literary work by both faculty and students. From Saul Bellow, William Gaddis, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison to John Ashbery, Philip Roth, William Weaver, and Chinua Achebe, Bard’s literature faculty, past and present, represents some of the most important writers of our time. The prize is intended to encourage and support young writers of fiction, and provide them with an opportunity to work in a fertile intellectual environment. Last year’s Bard Fiction Prize was awarded to Greg Jackson for his short story collection Prodigals (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016). Photo: Author Clare Beams has been selected to receive the Bard Fiction Prize for 2020. Photo by Kristi Jan Hoover
Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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01-27-2020 |
http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/carnegieadult Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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01-27-2020 |
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01/22/announcing-our-new-publisher-mona-simpson/ Photo: Photo by Gaspar Tringale
Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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01-06-2020 |
Distinguished Writer in Residence Dawn Lundy Martin is among the judges for the PEN Open Book Award. Bard alumnus Pierre Joris ’69 is one of the judges of the Award for Poetry in Translation. https://pen.org/2020-pen-america-literary-awards-longlists/ Photo: Daniel Mendelsohn, Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College
Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Literature Program,Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program,Division of Languages and Literature,Classical Studies Program,Bardians at Work | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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December 2019 |
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12-30-2019 |
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/12/childrens-fantasy-literature-oxford-school-tolkien-lewis.html Photo: Professor Cecire teaches her Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature course at Bard. Photo by China Jorrin '86
Meta: Subject(s): Literature Program,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Center for Experimental Humanities | |
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12-16-2019 |
http://tanyamarcuse.com/ Photo: (L-R) Francine Prose and Tanya Marcuse. Photo by Jonathan Blanc for the New York Public Library.
Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Studio Arts Program,Division of the Arts,Division of Languages and Literature | |
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November 2019 |
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11-22-2019 |
Conjunctions:73, Earth Elegies Features New Work from Brian Evenson, Joyce Carol Oates, James Morrow, Lance Olsen, Rae Armantrout, Quincy Troupe, Eliot Weinberger, Nathaniel Mackey, Sabine Schiffner, Rob Nixon, Heather Altfeld, Arthur Sze, Francine Prose, Troy Jollimore, and Kristine Ong MuslimTo be mindful of the planet we call home is to be aware that our natural world is suffering. Its oceans are rising up, as if in protest. Its populations of birds and fish, of mammals and reptiles, are, many of them, in steep and steady decline. Forests, coral reefs, habitats of every sort of life form, from tree frogs to butterfly fish, from elephants to bees, are profoundly afflicted. Conjunctions:73, Earth Elegies—the latest issue of the innovative literary magazine published by Bard College—gathers writings that examine and lament the plight of our planet, while also celebrating its grand sublimity, its peerless beauty, and its indispensability. Edited by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow, Earth Elegies features an exclusive interview with Underland author Robert Macfarlane, conducted by Diane Ackerman; a new translation of Sabine Schiffner poems; as well as new work from Brian Evenson, James Morrow, Lance Olsen, Joyce Carol Oates, Rae Armantrout, Quincy Troupe, Eliot Weinberger, Nathaniel Mackey, Sabine Schiffner, Rob Nixon, Heather Altfeld, Arthur Sze, Francine Prose, Troy Jollimore, and Kristine Ong Muslim.“It is inarguable that our planet and all of its denizens, both flora and fauna, humans among them, are imperiled,” writes Morrow. “Earth Elegies addresses this essential theme and celebrates our fragile, sublime, indispensable world. All of these writers have approached our theme from unexpectedly different angles, but no matter how diverse their narratives, the many voices and visions in this issue emanate from a single concern: the survival of our planet.” Additional contributors to Earth Elegies include Matthew Cheney, Jessica Campbell, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Krista Eastman, Matthew Gavin Frank, Troy Jollimore, Karla Kelsey, Hilary Leichter, Rebecca Lilly, Sandra Meek, Kate Monaghan, Andrew Mossin, Yxta Maya Murray, Rob Nixon, Toby Olson, Jessica Reed, Donald Revell, Sofia Samatar, Jonathan Thirkield, Debbie Urbanski, Thomas Dai, and Wil Weitzel. The Washington Post says, “Conjunctions offers a showplace for some of the most exciting and demanding writers now at work.” Edited by Bradford Morrow and published twice yearly by Bard College, Conjunctions publishes innovative fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by emerging voices and contemporary masters. For nearly four decades, Conjunctions has challenged accepted forms and styles, with equal emphasis on groundbreaking experimentation and rigorous execution. Named a “Top Literary Magazine 2019” by Reedsy, the journal was a finalist for both the 2018 and 2019 ASME Award for Fiction and the 2018 CLMP Firecracker Award for General Excellence. In addition, contributions to recent issues have been selected for The Best American Essays (2018, 2019), The Pushcart Prize XLIV: Best of the Small Presses, Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Best Small Fictions 2019, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019. For more information on the latest issue, please visit conjunctions.com/print/archive/conjunctions73. To order a copy, go to annandaleonline.org/conjunctions, call the Conjunctions office at 845-758-7054, e-mail conjunctions@bard.edu, or write to Conjunctions, Bard College, PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000. Visit the Conjunctions website at conjunctions.com. http://www.conjunctions.com/ Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Conjunctions | |
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11-04-2019 |
Photo: Sigrid Nunez. Image Credit: Nancy Crampton
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Written Arts Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Conjunctions | |
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October 2019 |
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10-29-2019 |
The Classical Studies Scholarship recognizes academically outstanding students committed to classical studies. Scholarships cover up to full tuition for four years and are awarded based on need. Scholarship students must maintain a 3.3 grade point average or higher while earning at least 32 credits per year. Recipients are also eligible for a $1,500 stipend for classics-related summer programs (e.g. archaeological excavations, American School at Athens/Rome, language study) following their sophomore or junior year. Transfer students are also eligible for Classical Studies Scholarship funding. Desirable experiences for selection as a Classical Studies Scholar include a proven interest in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and their legacies; an interest in, and potential for, learning Greek and Latin; strong performance in high school classes related to English and world literature, languages, history, and/or other related humanities subjects. For more information or to apply, go to connect.bard.edu/register/classics_scholar. “We in the Classical Studies Program are thrilled about this new initiative. These need-based financial aid scholarships, which include support for summer opportunities such as travel abroad and intensive language study, allow Bard College to make a unique contribution to ongoing efforts to widen access and increase equity in the field of Classics. We are excited to welcome the first scholars to Bard in Fall 2020, where they will join our thriving program and work with our award-winning faculty to pursue their passion for the ancient world,” says Associate Professor of Classical Studies Lauren Curtis. Photo: Bard College Associate Professor of Classical Studies Lauren Curtis. Photo by Eliza Watson '21
Meta: Subject(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program,Division of Social Studies,Division of Languages and Literature,Classical Studies Program,Literature Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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10-28-2019 |
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/10/22/david-avallones-writers-commentary-on-bettie-pages-halloween-special-2019/ Photo: Cover art by Roy Allan Martinez
Meta: Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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10-21-2019 |
http://www.conjunctions.com/about/news/event/?id=136226 Photo: Peter Orner. Photo by Pawul Kruk
Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Conjunctions,Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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10-16-2019 |
New Faculty Chairs and Distinguished Professorships include Susan Aberth in Art History, Valeria Luiselli in Written Arts, Kelly Reichardt in Film and Electronic Arts, and An-My Lê in PhotographyBard College has appointed four new chairs and distinguished professorships across disciplines this fall. In the Division of the Arts’ Art History and Visual Culture Program, Susan Aberth has been named Edith C. Blum Professor of Art History. This chair was formerly held by Jean French. In the Division of Languages and Literature’s Written Arts Program, Valeria Luiselli has been named Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature. In the Division of the Arts’ Film and Electronic Arts Program, Kelly Reichardt has been named S. William Senfeld Artist in Residence. In the Division of the Arts’ Photography Program, An-My Lê has been named Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor in the Arts. This chair was formerly held by Peter Hutton. Susan Aberth is an art historian whose area of specialization is surrealism in Latin America. Aberth’s teaching interests focus on Latin American art, African art, Islamic art, and other religious art and practices. Additional interests include African religious practices in the Americas, and the art and iconography of Freemasonry, Spiritualism, and the occult. In addition to her 2004 book Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Lund Humphries), she has contributed to Seeking the Marvelous: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism (Fulgur Press, 2020), Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist (Phoenix Art Museum, 2019), Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvelous (Routledge Press, 2018), Leonora Carrington: Cuentos mágicos (Museo de Arte Moderno & INBA, Mexico City, 2018), Unpacking: The Marciano Collection (Delmonico Books, Prestel, 2017), and Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde (Manchester University Press, 2017), as well as to Abraxas: International Journal of Esoteric Studies, Black Mirror, and the Journal of Surrealism of the Americas. She received her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles; MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; and PhD from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Aberth has been at Bard since 2000. Valeria Luiselli is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction whose books are forthcoming and/or published in more than 20 languages. A 2019 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is the author of the novels Lost Children Archive (2019); The Story of My Teeth (2015), named Best Book in Fiction by the Los Angeles Times and one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist; and Faces in the Crowd (2014), for which she received a National Book Foundation “5 under 35” prize, among other honors. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Question, a nonfiction work published in 2017, won the American Book Award and was a National Book Critics Circle and Kirkus Prize finalist. Other nonfiction publications include “Maps of Harlem,” in Where You Are; and Sidewalks, a collection of essays that was named one of the 10 best books of 2014 by New York. Recent journal, newspaper, and radio work has appeared in the New York Times (“The Littlest Don Quixotes versus the World”), Guardian (“Frida Kahlo and the Birth of Fridolatry”), Outlook Interview Series, BBC World Services (“Undocumented Central American Minors”), Harper’s Trump special (“Terrorist and Alien”), and NPR’s This American Life (“The Questionnaire”), among others. Honors also include an Art for Justice Fellowship (2018–19) and residencies at Under the Volcano, USA-Mexico; Poets House, New York City; and Castello di Fosdinovo, Italy. She previously taught at Hofstra University, City College, the New York University MFA Writing Program in Paris, and Columbia University’s MFA Writing Program. Luiselli founded the Teenage Immigrant Integration Association at Hofstra in 2015, a program that offers continuous support to immigrant and refugee teens through one-on-one English classes, soccer games, and civil rights education. She is a member of PEN America and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. She received her BA from UNAM in Mexico, and her MA and PhD from Columbia University. She has been at Bard since 2019. Kelly Reichardt is a filmmaker whose latest film, Certain Women—starring Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, and Lily Gladstone—premiered in 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival and won the top award at the London Film Festival. Her other films include: Night Moves (2013), Meek’s Cutoff (2010), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Old Joy (2006), and River of Grass (1994). Her film First Cow is currently in postproduction. Reichardt has received the United States Artists Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and Renew Media Fellowship. Her work has been screened at the Whitney Biennial (2012), Film Forum, Cannes Film Festival in “un certain regard,” Venice International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and BFI London Film Festival. She has had retrospectives at the Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archive, Museum of the Moving Image, Walker Art Center, and American Cinematheque Los Angeles. Reichardt received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University. She has taught at Bard College since 2006. An-My Lê is a photographer who was born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1960, but left that country during the final year of the war in 1975 and subsequently found a home as a political refugee in the United States. She received an MFA from Yale University in 1993. Her film and photography examine the effects and representation of war and have included the documentation of (and participation in) Vietnam War reenactments in South Carolina. She has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts, and has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, and MoMA PS1. An-My has been teaching at Bard since 1999. Photo: Clockwise from top left: Susan Aberth, Valeria Luiselli (photo by Alfredo Pelcastre), An-My Lê (photo by Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00), and Kelly Reichardt (Pete Mauney ’93 MFA ’00)
Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Photography Program,Division of the Arts,Division of Languages and Literature,Art History Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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10-08-2019 |
Photo: Bard faculty members Marina van Zuylen and Daniel Terris.
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): IILE,Clemente Course,Center for Civic Engagement,Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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September 2019 |
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09-30-2019 |
The Bard Fiction Prize committee writes: “The nine stories in Clare Beams’ debut collection of fiction, We Show What We Have Learned, range from factual, historical settings and characters to eerily fantastical ones, displaying a startling depth and an epic scale of imagination. While the characters, and the situations they find themselves in, are sometimes surreal, their psychologies are always absolutely real—fully, compassionately drawn. Every one of these stories has a world and a lifetime behind it, and every one is a compelling, disquieting, and immensely pleasurable journey, reverie, and dream for its reader. Clare Beams is a subtle, quiet master of short fiction, who writes in beautiful and exquisitely crafted prose.” “I am so much more grateful to Bard and to the Bard Fiction Prize committee than I can possibly say for this recognition of my work and for this gift—one of the best gifts anyone could give me, as a writer who’s also a parent of young children—of time. To join this list of winners, so many who are heroes and heroines of mine, is an honor, and to join the inspiring Bard community is a thrill. I can’t wait to meet the students and faculty and work on my third book, a new novel, in their midst,” says Beams. Clare Beams is the author of the story collection We Show What We Have Learned, which was a Kirkus Best Debut of 2016 and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. Her first novel, The Illness Lesson, will be published by Doubleday in February of 2020. Her fiction appears in One Story, n+1, Ecotone, The Common, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere, and she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and two daughters, and has taught creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University and St. Vincent College. The creation of the Bard Fiction Prize, presented each October since 2001, continues Bard’s long-standing position as a center for creative, groundbreaking literary work by both faculty and students. From Saul Bellow, William Gaddis, Mary McCarthy, and Ralph Ellison to John Ashbery, Philip Roth, William Weaver, and Chinua Achebe, Bard’s literature faculty, past and present, represents some of the most important writers of our time. The prize is intended to encourage and support young writers of fiction, and provide them with an opportunity to work in a fertile intellectual environment. Last year’s Bard Fiction Prize was awarded to Greg Jackson for his short story collection Prodigals (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016). https://www.bard.edu/bfp/ Photo: Author Clare Beams has been selected to receive the Bard Fiction Prize for 2020. Photo: Kristi Jan Hoover
Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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09-25-2019 |
The MacArthur Fellowship is a no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential. There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishments, and potential for the Fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work. Recipients may be writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, entrepreneurs, or those in other fields, with or without institutional affiliations. Fellows may use their award to advance their expertise, engage in bold new work, or, if they wish, to change fields or alter the direction of their careers. Although nominees are reviewed for their achievements, the Fellowship is not a lifetime achievement award, but rather an investment in a person’s originality, insight, and potential. Indeed, the purpose of the Fellowship is to enable recipients to exercise their own creative instincts for the benefit of human society. MacArthur Fellows receive $625,000 stipends that are bestowed with no conditions; recipients may use the money as they see fit. Eleven Bard faculty members have previously been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship. Jeffrey Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, Korea, and England. He is a Choctaw-Cherokee artist who incorporates his heritage into his multi-disciplinary work, which includes abstract sculptures, paintings, and prints. Gibson earned his Master of Arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998 and his Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995. Gibson has work in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Canada, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and more. Recent solo exhibitions include Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer at the Seattle Art Museum in Washington and Madison Museum of Art in Wisconsin and Jeffrey Gibson: This is the Day at Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. Gibson is a past TED Foundation Fellow, and a Joan Mitchell Grant recipient. He lives and works in New York. Valeria Luiselli is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction whose books are forthcoming and/or published in more than 20 languages. She is the author of the novels Lost Children Archive (2019); The Story of My Teeth (2015), named Best Book in Fiction by the Los Angeles Times, one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, and a National Book Critics Circle finalist; and Faces in the Crowd (2014), for which she received a National Book Foundation “5 under 35” prize, among other honors. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, a nonfiction work published in 2017, won the American Book Award and was a National Book Critics Circle and Kirkus Prize finalist. Other nonfiction publications include “Maps of Harlem,” in Where You Are, and Sidewalks, a collection of essays that was named one of the 10 best books of 2014 by New York. Recent journal, newspaper, and radio work has appeared in the New York Times (“The Littlest Don Quixotes versus the World”), Guardian (“Frida Kahlo and the Birth of Fridolatry”), Outlook Interview Series, BBC World Services (“Undocumented Central American Minors”), Harper’s Trump special (“Terrorist and Alien”), and NPR’s This American Life (“The Questionnaire”), among others. Honors also include an Art for Justice Fellowship (2018–19) and residencies at Under the Volcano, USA-Mexico; Poets House, New York City; and Castello di Fosdinovo, Italy. She previously taught at Hofstra University, City College, the New York University MFA Writing Program in Paris, and Columbia University’s MFA Writing Program. She founded the Teenage Immigrant Integration Association at Hofstra in 2015, a program that offers continuous support to immigrant and refugee teens through one-on-one English classes, soccer games, and civil rights education. She is a member of PEN America and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. She was born in Mexico City and currently lives in New York City. https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1036/ Photo: Jeffrey Gibson, image courtesy of Jeffrey Gibson Studio and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California, photo by Pete Mauney '93 MFA '00. Valeria Luiselli, photo by Alfredo Pelcastre.
Meta: Subject(s): Written Arts Program,Studio Arts Program,Division of the Arts,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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09-03-2019 |
https://www.eelive.ng/somali-writer-nuruddin-farah-wins-2019-lee-hochul-literary-prize-for-peace/ Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Literature Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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July 2019 |
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07-12-2019 |
https://www.yivo.org/Lithuanian-State-Award Photo: H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania, and Jonathan Brent, YIVO’s Executive Director and CEO, at Order for Merits to Lithuania Conferment
Meta: Subject(s): Russian and Eurasian Studies Program,Religion and Theology,Literature Program,Division of Social Studies,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): YIVO | |
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07-03-2019 |
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/daniel-mendelsohn/ecstasy-and-terror/ Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Classical Studies Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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June 2019 |
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06-24-2019 |
https://www3.unifr.ch/philclass/fr/news/actualites/20704 Meta: Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Division of Languages and Literature,Classical Studies Program,Literature Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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06-04-2019 |
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/why-you-can-t-be-angry-and-rational-at-the-same-time-1.3903298 Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Classical Studies Program,Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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May 2019 |
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05-19-2019 |
https://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=3154 Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Conjunctions | |
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05-07-2019 |
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic is the story of what happened after Mendelsohn’s 81-year-old father enrolled in his Bard College course on Homer’s Odyssey.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/an-odyssey-is-aprils-pick-for-the-pbs-newshour-new-york-times-book-club Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Classical Studies Program,Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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April 2019 |
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04-16-2019 |
https://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=3143 Photo: Valeria Luiselli. Image Credit: Alfredo Pelcastre
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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04-09-2019 |
Robert Cioffi, assistant professor of classics, has been awarded two fellowships from Harvard University for work on his scholarly monograph, Narrating the Marvelous: The Greek Novel and the Ancient Ethnographic Imagination. One, from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, provides funding for an additional semester of research leave. In addition, he has been named a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., where he will be in residence for the spring semester of 2020.
https://kleos.chs.harvard.edu/?p=138089 Meta: Subject(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program,Division of Social Studies,Division of Languages and Literature,Classical Studies Program,Literature Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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March 2019 |
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03-12-2019 |
http://www.bard.edu/news/notes/details/?id=3965 Photo: Peter Filkins
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Literature Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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03-05-2019 |
http://www.bard.edu/news/features/?id=258 Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Conjunctions | |
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February 2019 |
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02-12-2019 |
http://www.bard.edu/news/features/?id=252 Meta: Subject(s): Community Engagement,Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement | |
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02-10-2019 |
Lauterbach brings every kind of writing into her work, writes critic John Yau: dialog, essay, letter, diary, lyric, prose, list, philosophical investigation, memory, fiction, dream, and citation.
https://hyperallergic.com/483241/spell-ann-lauterbach-penguin-random-house-2018/ Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Literature Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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02-06-2019 |
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=3117 Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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January 2019 |
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01-22-2019 |
Assistant Professor of Classics Robert Cioffi reviews Josephine Quinn’s In Search of the Phoenicians.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n01/robert-l-cioffi/a-palm-tree-a-colour-and-a-mythical-bird Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Classical Studies Program,Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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01-07-2019 |
Farah’s new novel offers no easy answers in the clash between religious extremism and secularism as it plays out in a Somali family living in Norway.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/books/review/north-of-dawn-nuruddin-farah.html Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Literature Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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01-02-2019 |
http://www.bard.edu/news/features/?id=241 Credit: Valeria Luiselli. Photo by Alfredo Pelcastre.
Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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November 2018 |
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11-20-2018 |
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=3094 Meta: Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Conjunctions | |
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October 2018 |
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10-31-2018 |
http://www.bard.edu/news/features/?id=212 Meta: Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Division of Languages and Literature,Early College,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Center for Curatorial Studies,Center for Civic Engagement,BHSECs,Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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August 2018 |
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08-23-2018 |
http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=3060 Meta: Subject(s): Division of Social Studies,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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June 2018 |
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06-01-2018 |
This new volume “offers an English reader a personal tour through the private quarters of Tchaikovsky to his most informal and intimate zone.”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/02/tchaikovsky-letters-saved-from-censors-reveal-secret-loves-homosexuality Meta: Subject(s): Music,Literature Program,Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures Program,Division of Social Studies,Division of Languages and Literature,Russian and Eurasian Studies Program | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs | |
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