Faculty News

Bruna Dantas Lobato ’15 Bennington College Alum and Visiting Faculty Member Bruna Dantas Lobato ’15 Wins 2023 National Book Award for Translation

Bennington College congratulates Bruna Dantas Lobato ’15 who won the National Book Award for her translation of Stênio Gardel’s The Words That Remain in a ceremony on the evening of Wednesday, November 15.

Hugh Ryan “Writing is the Last Thing I Do”: 5 Questions for Hugh Ryan
By Craig Morgan Teicher

Hugh Ryan graduated from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2009 and went on to publish two acclaimed books of nonfiction, When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) and The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, which won the Stonewall Book Award/Israel Fishman Award for Nonfiction and the Warren Johansson Award. He has taught nonfiction at the Writing Seminars since 2022, and just sold his next book, Becoming History, a memoir in essays. He talked with me about turning research into writing and falling back in love with the essay.

John Umphlett A Conversation with New Sculpture Faculty John Umphlett

Coming to work at Bennington College is nothing new to new sculpture faculty John Umphlett; he has been a technical instructor in sculpture here for more than 20 years.

Sherry Kramer A Play is a Single Breath: A Conversation with Sherry Kramer

Bennington College Drama Faculty Sherry Kramer released a new book, Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience, published by Methuen/Bloomsbury (UK) last month. We caught up with her to learn more.

Dickinson New Courses for the Fall of 2023

Bennington College faculty are encouraged to follow their own interests and the interests of their students as they propose their classes. As a result, classes, as many as half of which are new each term, feature topics that are always reflecting new lines of inquiry.

Barn in Summer Bennington Welcomes New Faculty for 2023-2024

After extensive searches, the College is thrilled to welcome eight new faculty beginning in Fall 2023 and Spring 2024.

Image of Tilly Grimes Eight Questions with New Costume Design Member Faculty Tilly Grimes

Meet new Costume Design faculty member Tilly Grimes.

Image of Fortune Onoiwu A Conversation with New Chemistry Faculty Member Fortune Ononiwu

Meet organic chemist and new Bennington faculty member Fortune Ononiwu.

Image of Virginia Kelsey Eight Questions with New Music Faculty Member Virginia Kelsey

Virginia Kelsey is a mezzo-soprano trained in the Western classical tradition and an original member of the Grammy© Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, an alternative-classical vocal band.

Image of two men in front of chalkboard How Students Brought a “Once in a Lifetime” Class to Bennington

Experts on Iranian culture and politics blur the lines between the familiar and the unfamiliar.