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Bard College Student Samantha Barrett ’26 Wins 2025 PEN/Robert J Dau Short Story Prize

This award recognizes 12 emerging writers each year for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website, and aims to support the launch of their careers as fiction writers.
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Bard College Celebrates Student Achievements at Undergraduate Awards Ceremony

The annual ceremony is a celebration of the incredible talent and dedication showcased by Bard students, as well as the unwavering support and guidance from esteemed faculty and staff at the College.
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“Rebuilding the World Through Queer Video Games:” Bo Ruberg ’07 for YES Magazine

For Ruberg, the relationship between the physical world and the virtual space accessed within video games is complex, and the latter is no less real for being speculative, given that it offers players a chance to inhabit and interact with realities that a

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06-23-2015
Teju Cole’s Known and Strange Things, a collection of 40-plus essays spanning art, literature, and politics, will be published by Random House in 2016.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
06-23-2015
Mendelsohn finds traces of the modern fascination with robots in the works of Homer and Aristotle as he discusses the films Her and Ex Machina.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Film Series | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
06-21-2015
Berrigan’s innovative rectangular poems are now available online at Bomb magazine.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): MFA |
06-20-2015
Professor Luzzi recommends readers attempt Dante’s Divine Comedy this summer.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
06-15-2015
Rising senior Julie Jarema has won one of five $2,500 stipends from We Need Diverse Books to intern at Simon and Schuster in New York City this summer.
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Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Career Development,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
06-10-2015
When Professor Luzzi's pregnant wife Katherine was in a fatal car accident, he became a widower and a father in the same day. He turned to Dante for refuge in his grief.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Foreign Language | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
06-09-2015
The musical adaptation of Fun Home, the best-selling graphic memoir by Simon's Rock alumna Alison Bechdel, who received her A.A. degree in 1979, has won the Tony Award for best new musical.
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Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of Languages and Literature,Early Colleges,Music,Theater | Institutes(s): Bard College at Simon's Rock |
06-09-2015
Associate Professor of Italian Joseph Luzzi used Dante's epic poem "The Divine Comedy" to get him through the grief of his wife's sudden death, as described in his new memoir.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Foreign Language | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
06-08-2015
Professor Farah discusses his new novel, Hiding in Plain Sight, the heartbreaking loss of his sister in a terrorist attack, and misconceptions about his native Somalia.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
06-08-2015
Bard Fiction Prize winner Laura van den Berg talks about writers who have influenced her, age bias in publishing, and her debut novel, Find Me.
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06-05-2015
Joseph Luzzi writes about the day he became both a father and widower, and the challenges of raising his daughter while being leveled by loss. 
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