Faculty News

Sherry Kramer, faculty member in drama, was interviewed on WNPR's The Colin McEnroe Show about the alternative history class she teaches, and whether it’s possible that we can learn more about our present from a fictional past than we ever could from a history book.

Marguerite Feitlowitz, faculty member in literature, was interviewed about her book, A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, which explores the verbal atrocities of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, in in the Buenos Aires Herald.

The Department of Education announced today that Bennington College was among the colleges and universities selected from a competitive national pool to participate in the Second Chance Pell pilot program.

The National Science Foundation has awarded an $18,000 EAGER Research Grant to David Bond, Associate Director of CAPA, to support his ongoing research on the role of fossil fuels in driving contemporary social and environmental change. Bond is joined on the grant by Lucas Bessire, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.

A 20-year survey of the work of faculty member Liz Deschenes opens at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston on June 29. The exhibition will include "explorations of various photographic technologies, rich and nuanced work with photograms, and sculptural installations that reflect the movements and light within a given space and respond to a site’s unique features."