Ellison Center Director Nicholas Lewis Interviewed on Radio Kingston
Director of the Ralph Ellison Center Nicholas Lewis
Associate Vice President for Academic Initiatives and Associate Dean of Bard College Nicholas Lewis, who also directs the Ralph Ellison Center, appeared on Evenings with JMX on Radio Kingston. Lewis discussed the newly launched Ellison Center and its history, initiatives, and pedagogical underpinnings. The conversation covered Ellison’s work and the material remnants of his creative life, in particular his history and acculturation in New York City and elsewhere, as well as Bard, which was the first place that Ellison taught following his National Book Award-winning novel, Invisible Man. Lewis also explored Ellison’s early work in the field of composition and hinted that several scores of Ellison’s are set to be recorded and released.
Ellison’s multidisciplinary, heterodox engagement with creative culture and academia are upheld by Lewis and the Center as an example of leading a life of meaning. “He really is in a way like the prototypical Bard scholar, the students who come who want to explore widely and wildly, who have many different varied interests and passions and proclivities, and he is a sort of model for how one can find coherence in a life.”
Post Date: 11-11-2026
Ellison’s multidisciplinary, heterodox engagement with creative culture and academia are upheld by Lewis and the Center as an example of leading a life of meaning. “He really is in a way like the prototypical Bard scholar, the students who come who want to explore widely and wildly, who have many different varied interests and passions and proclivities, and he is a sort of model for how one can find coherence in a life.”
Post Date: 11-11-2026