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Bard College Faculty M. Gessen and Alumna Juliana Spahr ’88 Win Pulitzer Prizes

This year’s Pulitzer Prize recipients will constitute the 109th class of Pulitzer Prize winners.

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Chang Chavkin Center Awarded $218,750 Solon E. Summerfield Foundation Grant

The three-year grant will support a partnership between the Chang Chavkin Center and the Freedom and Citizenship Program at Columbia University.

July 24–August 2: Bard SummerScape Presents Richard Strauss’s Opera <em>The Egyptian Helen </em>in Rare, Lavish New Production by Christian Räth

July 24–August 2: Bard SummerScape Presents Richard Strauss’s Opera The Egyptian Helen in Rare, Lavish New Production by Christian Räth

As a highlight of the 2026 Bard SummerScape festival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents a rare, grand-scale new production of Richard Strauss’s epic, seldom-staged 1928 opera, The Egyptian Helen (“Die ägyptische Helena”).

2026 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Bard Faculty Members

Fellowships were awarded to Bard College faculty Jacqueline Goss, professor of film and electronic arts, and Joseph Luzzi, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature. MFA summer faculty James Hoff, Steve Reinke, and Kenneth Tam also received fellowships.

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