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![Phillip Williams](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Phillip%20Williams.jpg?itok=JqGpPP-B)
Visiting literature faculty member and poet Phillip Williams will read from his work at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, NJ, on Friday, November 10 as part of Princeton University's C. K. Williams Reading Series.
![a scene from the importance of being earnest](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/importance-of-being-earnest_300x225.jpg?itok=Yir9gcdH)
A review in the Hartford Courant of Jean Randich's "The Importance of Being Earnest" highly praised the Connecticut Rep production.
![The Importance of Being Earnest](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/importance%20of%20being%20earnest.jpg?itok=33d3B4Gg)
Drama faculty member Jean Randich will direct Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest to open the Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s 2017-18 season.
![Image of the certificate](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Jon-Isherwood-Citizenship_300x225.jpg?itok=0Xxcru-q)
The City Council of Minucciano, Italy, has named faculty member Jon Isherwood an Honorary Citizen in recognition of his work promoting the region through an art and technology initiative he’s been leading for the past five years.
![Burr and Burton](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Burr%20and%20Burton.jpg?itok=oCM9LIsE)
Rabbi Michael Cohen has brought his Bennington course on Conflict Resolution to Burr & Burton Academy, a private high school in nearby Manchester, Vermont.
![The I-70 Sign Show](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/I70%20sign%20show.jpg?itok=rq1_PXR_)
Anne Thompson, director of Bennington’s Usdan Gallery, was interviewed on KCRW Radio about her public art exhibition, the I-70 Sign Show, which displays works of contemporary art on surplus interstate billboards along 250 miles between St. Louis and Kansas City.
![Nepali Contractors](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Nepali%20contractors.jpg?itok=LhhLlZU7)
An op-ed by anthropology faculty member Noah Coburn in the Kathmandu Post warns of the growing risks for international security contractors—particularly those from Nepal—being hired by private companies to assist the Afghan military in an increasingly unstable region.
![image of CAPA sign](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/CAPA_Sign_300x225.jpg?itok=4qqom8SX)
In a project led in part by faculty member David Bond and Dean of Research, Planning, and Assessment Zeke Bernstein, residents of Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh, NY and North Bennington, VT impacted by PFOA contamination are being urged to fill out a new community health questionnaire.
![Dorset Playhouse](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/dorset%20playhouse.jpg?itok=YsssVoRe)
The New York Times detailed Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis’ return to acting after 13 years with his leading role in in “American Buffalo,” which is currently playing at the Dorset Theater Festival.
![Robert Browning](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/guthrie_poem_guide.jpg?itok=CMFR12zy)
A poem guide by literature faculty member Camille Guthrie of Robert Browning's dramatic monologue, "My Last Duchess," was recently published by the Poetry Foundation.
!["A New Model"](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/ransick-essay-creativz_300x225.jpg?itok=m3HWsjby)
Creativz published an article by Robert Ransick called "Enough with Problem Solving, Let's Start Creating."
![Vanished Optimism](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/diplomat-logo_300x225.jpg?itok=bs6GE4sG)
The Diplomat published an opinion piece by Noah Coburn about the decreasing confidence many Afghans feel for their government and the possibility of change.
![Making the Mark](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Making_the_Mark300_0.jpg?itok=0n-TZzsP)
Anthropology faculty member Miroslava Prazak's recently published book on female genital cutting, Making the Mark: Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting, was selected for the Washington Post's fourth annual TMC African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular.
![A Stricken Field](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/stricken%20field.jpg?itok=qk_QtViK)
Literature faculty member Ben Anastas declared Martha Gellhorn’s 1940 book, A Stricken Field, the writer’s greatest novel and “essential reading for the political moment we’re living through today” in a New York Times book review.
![Theaster Gates Adams-Tillim](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Theaster%20Gates%20Adams-Tillim%20Lecture.jpg?itok=--2-1HVJ)
The artist, curator, urbanist, and facilitator Theaster Gates was in residence at Bennington College in April, speaking to students, faculty, and staff about making place and making change, the two driving forces of his work. The highlight of his time on campus was the Adams–Tillim Lecture, which he delivered on April 25. By Aruna D'Souza
![The Paris Review](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/paris_review_300x225.jpg?itok=3VPhiRd6)
Paris Review correspondent Megan Mayhew Bergman (MFAW '10), associate director of Bennington’s MFA in Writing, addresses in her latest column how women, often excluded from adventure narratives, carve out their own heroic space.
![American Academy Honors Alums](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/American-Academy_300x225.jpg?itok=hKQE0hBt)
The American Academy of Arts and Letters honored Safiya Sinclair '10, Lee Clay Johnson '07, and MFA faculty Kathleen Graber.
![Williams Named Finalist for Lambda Literary Award](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Lambda-300x225.jpg?itok=HRvhV2Ip)
Visiting literature faculty member Phillip Williams’ debut poetry collection, Thief in the Interior, has been named a 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.
![whiting awards](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Whiting.jpg?itok=WTKuORC0)
Visiting faculty member Phillip B. Williams has won a Whiting Award for his debut book of poems, Thief In The Interior. MFA faculty member Kaitlyn Greenidge won for her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman.
![Susie Ibarra](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/susie_ibarra_300x225.jpg?itok=VBw77S5m)
Music faculty member and percussionist Susie Ibarra sat down with New York-based composer and performer Jeremiah Cymerman for his 5049 Podcast, which features long-form, one-on-one conversations with some of “the most important and distinctive living musicians.”
![Marguerite Feitlowitz Published in Catapult](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Feitlowitz-Catapult_300x225.jpg?itok=eihMFKtx)
Catapult—a premier online literary journal—has published Marguerite Feitlowitz's Spanish-to-English translation of a story by Luisa Valenzuela called "Phone Call From Hell." Valenzuela is a major Argentine novelist, short story writer, and the current President of Argentine PEN.
![Amy Hempel](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Amy_Hempel_300x225px.jpg?itok=jL1X7ZjJ)
MFA faculty member Amy Hempel is one of 14 new members to be elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
![Lum to Show At MassMoca](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Lum-Mary-Lorem-ipsum-MassMoca_300x225.jpg?itok=3WsZC_c5)
Assembly (Lorem ipsum), a long term installation by visual arts faculty Mary Lum, will be on view at Mass MoCA this coming May as part of the official opening of Building 6, their newly created gallery space.
![Janis Honored for Work With DTF](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Dorset-Theater-Festival-Wins-Award_300x225.jpg?itok=ujSUGc9g)
In her role as Artistic Director of the Dorset Theatre Festival, faculty member Dina Janis received an award from the State of Vermont earlier this month.
!["An Absolute Must-Read" Making the Mark by Mirka Prazak](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Making_the_Mark300_0.jpg?itok=0n-TZzsP)
The London School of Economics and Political Science featured a glowing review of Mirka Prazak's Making the Mark on their blog.
![Kate Tufts Award Phillip B. Williams Nominated](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Tufts_award_300x225.jpg?itok=8q2YsY9O)
Visiting faculty Phillip B. Williams has won the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his debut poetry collection, Thief In The Interior.
![Intertwined: A Panel Discussion](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Intertwined-a-panel-discussion_300x225.jpg?itok=J0voZGRm)
Faculty member Josh Blackwell '95 is the moderator of Intertwined: A Panel Discussion which will take place at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York City in response to the current exhibit at the James B. Duke House which reexamines what defines a painting.
![Sue Rees Fulbright](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Sue-Rees-Fulbright-Plays_300x225.jpg?itok=QU8-WQcs)
Through her Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Research award Sue Rees traveled to India this winter, where her research is based at the Kattaikkuttu Sangam.
![A Psalm for King James](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Vanessa-Lyon-Art-History_300x225.jpg?itok=mIZ0dTu6)
Art History, a leading journal in the field, has published an essay by Vanessa Lyon called "A Psalm for King James: Rubens's Peace Embracing Plenty and the Virtues of Female Affection at Whitehall.”
![David Bond writes about the rise of Trumpism](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Bond-Rise-of-Trumpism_300x225.jpg?itok=MpUTM4_E)
On the eve of the presidential inauguration, a top journal in American anthropology has published a collection of essays, co-edited by Associate Director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action David Bond, which raises new questions about the rise of Trump and the current state of American politics. The collection features work from leading anthropologists who offer provocative reflections on the culture of Trump and popular misconceptions of class and race today. These wide-ranging essays offer bold new interpretations of solidarity, hate and the future of American democracy.