Faculty News
Bennington Becomes First US School to Participate in European Dance FestivalBennington College this summer became the first American school to participate in the European Schools Festival at the National Center of Contemporary Dance in France.
Schonbeck Honored at Solid Sound FestivalLongtime Bennington faculty member Gunnar Schonbeck was honored at Mass MoCA's Solid Sound Festival recently when Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche performed using the unique handcrafted instruments for which the late music teacher is known.
Sgorbati Awarded Creative Research Residency Dance faculty member and professional mediator Susan Sgorbati has been awarded a six-week Creative Research residency at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC).
Feitlowitz Praised for Book on Argentina's “Dirty War”In his column in the Buenos Aires Herald, celebrated journalist and human rights hero Robert Cox dubbed faculty member Marguerite Feitlowitz's book on Argentina's infamous Dirty War "the most important book to appear so far on the consequences of the vicious cycle of terror and violence that enveloped Argentina in the 1970s."
Gover Wins John Fisher Memorial Prize Philosophy faculty member Karen Gover was named winner of the American Society for Aesthetics' 2011 John Fisher Memorial Prize, awarded bi-annually for an original essay in aesthetics.