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A black and white photo of Jedediah Berry ’99 in a newsboy hat.

The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry ’99 Wins Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction

“Winning it was just an astonishing thing. I felt incredibly grateful.”
Portrait of Ingrid Becker with blonde hair wearing a black shirt.

Ingrid Becker Named a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study

Becker will work on a new research project about the rise of the questionnaire—a sociological technology and ubiquitous mass cultural form—in relation to the shifting status of the question in post-1945 Anglo-American poetry.
Olga Voronina smiling while standing on a bridge.

Professor Olga Voronina Awarded a Houghton Library Visiting Fellowship by Harvard

She received the Rodney G. Dennis Fellowship in the Study of Manuscripts.

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December 2013

12-24-2013
Bard Italian professor Joseph Luzzi's moving New York Times essay, "I Found Myself in a Dark Wood," was the subject of an article in a leading Italian daily newspaper, Corriere della Sera. (In Italian)
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Foreign Language | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
12-20-2013
Artist, alumna, and Bard MFA faculty Amy Sillman launched her first museum survey this year. Now the exhibition catalogue is one of the best art books of 2013.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): MFA |
12-19-2013
When Italian professor Joseph Luzzi's wife, Katherine, died suddenly in a car accident, Dante's Divine Comedy took on new meaning as he faced his grief.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Religion and Theology | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
12-18-2013
"Dylan’s songs can make us feel that pleasurable shock of being partially decapitated by beauty," writes Francine Prose.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Music | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
12-17-2013
President John Dramani Mahama of the Republic of Ghana visited Bard last week for the Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum. Sahara TV covered the event, which included music, dancing, poetry, and speeches from honored guests.
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Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Politics and International Affairs | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs,Center for Civic Engagement,Chinua Achebe Center |
12-10-2013
This week, the APA recognized Professor Daniel Mendelsohn's contributions to the field of classical studies by honoring him with the 2013 President's Award.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
12-06-2013
Stacey Allan '04, graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard, has cofounded the cutting edge arts publication and book imprint East of Borneo.
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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Center for Curatorial Studies |
12-05-2013
"You have to know who you are—as a person, but also as a member of a given civilization—in order to speak about a work," says Professor Mendelsohn in this interview.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
12-02-2013
Bard Alumnus Pierre Joris '69 Wins MLA Scaglione Prize for Translation<br />
Bard alumnus and parent Pierre Joris '69 has won the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature. Joris, professor emeritus of the University at Albany, State University of New York, receives the award for his translation of Paul Celan’s The Meridian: Final Version–Drafts–Materials.

Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
12-01-2013
Professor Klinkenborg’s essays in More Scenes from The Rural Life "suggest the small revelations that can touch us when we stop to pay attention," writes Danny Heitman.
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