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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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02-22-2016
Professor Manea is visiting Bard College Berlin and gave a talk at the German Marshall Fund on migration, globalization, and exile.
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02-20-2016
Language and Thinking faculty member Bruce Watson's Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age is "a delightful journey."
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Science, Math, and Computing,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
02-14-2016
"Worm Loves Worm ... brilliantly explores the idea of love between two beings, regardless of gender (or species) and despite societal ­pressures."
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02-10-2016
"Han’s glorious treatments of agency, personal choice, submission and subversion find form in the parable," writes Porochista Khakpour, visiting writer in residence.
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02-10-2016
Celia Bland, international coordinator for the Institute for Writing and Thinking, reflects on how the strong character of Jane Eyre influenced her as a young girl.
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02-10-2016
The writer and critic reveals his nostalgia for an older Paris, mourns the city's disappearing café culture, and touches on the urban defects of neoliberalism.
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02-09-2016
Award-Winning Author and Bard College Professor Luc Sante to Read at Bard College on Thursday, February 25
On Thursday, February 25, award-winning author Luc Sante, visiting professor of writing and photography at Bard College, will read from his most recent book, The Other Paris. Presented by Bard’s Written Arts Program, the reading takes place at 7:00 p.m. in Bard Hall, and is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required. Books will be available for sale and signing from Oblong Books & Music. 
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
02-07-2016
Writer in Residence Francine Prose offers a pop quiz about the romantic works she's most enjoyed discussing with her students in literature classes.
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02-03-2016
Hilary Kaplan, faculty in the Language and Thinking Program and the Bard Prison Initiative, has been nominated for her translation of Rilke Shake by Angélica Freitas.
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Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Prison Initiative,Bard Undergraduate Programs |
02-03-2016
Bard Fiction Prize Winner Alexandra Kleeman to Give Reading on February 15
Alexandra Kleeman, Bard Fiction Prize winner and writer in residence at Bard College, will read from her work on Monday, February 15. Free and open to the public, the reading begins at 7 p.m. in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium in Bard’s Reem-Kayden Center. Kleeman received the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize for her debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine (Harper 2015). The Bard Fiction Prize committee writes: "Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine wraps a nightmare inside absurdity. It is a novel of alienation, paranoia, anxiety, and dread that puts a smile on your face."
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02-01-2016
Writer in Residence Wyatt Mason reviews Moroccan-born author Laila Lalami's new novel, The Moor's Account.
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