Faculty News
A Shared Past in an Unfolding Present: A Conversation with Bard Professor, Photographer An-My Lê
The photographs of An-My Lê play with assumptions about photographic truth and narrative, questioning how we process mediated information. Whether by capturing confederate monuments removed from their pedestals, war reenactments, or American soldiers training in 29 Palms, California, Lê reframes American history and its myriad legacies. She chooses viewpoints that, in her words, “speak to experiences of a shared past in an unfolding present.” In this live conversation, Lê speaks with Getty Museum assistant curator Mazie Harris about her experience traveling across the United States to make photographs. More >
Book Review: Bard Professor Robert Cioffi on Robert Kanigel’s Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry
The classicist Milman Parry, who died in 1935 at the age of 33, “completely revolutionized the study of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, showing that the epics had not been written, as had long been thought, but were oral—composed in the act of performance,” writes Professor Cioffi in the New York Times. “His work has had wide-ranging ramifications, ushering in an emphasis on orality that has become increasingly central to modern literary culture.” More >
Recent News
- Bard Economist Pavlina Tcherneva Talks with Current Affairs about MMT and the Jobs Guarantee
- Art Historian Heeryoon Shin Joins Faculty of Bard College’s Art History and Visual Culture Program
- Bard College Appoints Political Theorist Mie Inouye to Tenure Track Faculty Position in Political Studies Program
- Bard College Names Ranjani Atur Inaugural Recipient of the Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies
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