Faculty News
![Anastas published in NYT Mag](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/anastas.jpg?itok=y_aFaZ9x)
Read literature faculty member Benjamin Anastas’ “The Breakup List” in the June 13 New York Times Magazine.
![Image of Dr. Johnnetta Cole](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/ColeJohnetta_Commencement2014_600x450.jpg?itok=ZyjnmO18)
Fear and the courage to overcome it were the themes of the 79th Bennington commencement dinner.
![Image of Noah Coburn](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/CoburnNoah_600x450.jpg?itok=92wRTMfY)
Faculty member Noah Coburn has been monitoring Afghanistan’s upcoming presidential election with a team of Afghan researchers in Kabul.
![Feitlowitz's translation of Salvador Novo's Autobiography](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/FeitlowitzMarguerite_SalvadorNovo_PillarOfSalt_600x450.jpg?itok=NRapRRf5)
Literature faculty member Marguerite Feitlowitz’s translated autobiography of Mexican writer Salvador Novo, which includes 19 translated sonnets, recounts Novo's coming-of-age amidst the violent Mexican Revolution and offers a history of his passions—both literary and otherwise. Published this spring by University of Texas Press, Pillar of Salt is "nothing short of beautiful," wrote critic Micah McCrary in his review.
![Belarusian Dream Poster](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/BelarusianDream_600x450.jpg?itok=fQZsqqxR)
Bennington students participating in an international theater festival organized in support of Belarusian freedom of expression staged a series of short plays on March 25 to commemorate Belarusian Freedom Day, an unofficial holiday observed in opposition to the country’s authoritarian regime.