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Daniel Mendelsohn Interviewed in the New York Review of Books

Mendelsohn discussed his new translation of Homer’s Odyssey for the University of Chicago Press.
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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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Robert Cioffi Reviews The Red Sea Scrolls for the London Review of Books

The book discusses the papyri of Wadi el-Jarf, which changed how we view the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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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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