Division of Languages and Literature News by Date
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June 2015
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Film Series | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): MFA |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Student | Subject(s): Career Development,Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Foreign Language | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
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 |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Foreign Language | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Bardians at Work,Division of Languages and Literature |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Bardians at Work,Division of Languages and Literature |
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