News from the Division of Languages and Literature

Francine Prose’s novel Blue Angel, written 20 years ago and now adapted for the screen as Submission, complicates the current cultural conversation about sexual harassment.

On Monday, March 5, Daniel Mendelsohn will give a book reading and signing followed by a wine reception for his new book, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic.

The National Book Award finalist and 2017 Bard Fiction Prize-winning novelist Karan Mahajan will read from his work on February 26.

Bard College has launched a tuition-free, degree-granting microcollege in the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. This innovative new program is designed to help nontraditional students who have been deterred, discouraged, or excluded from higher education to achieve associate degrees in the liberal arts, at no cost and in their home community.

The National Book Award finalist and 2017 Bard Fiction Prize-winning novelist Karan Mahajan will read from his work on February 26.

"Docile and utilitarian bodies of women and peoples of color, a compliant natural world—these are the operational goals of unreconstructed (and white supremacist) patriarchal society."

Bard College is one of five top schools taking part in the pilot expansion of a program developed to teach students to write for the real world.