News and Events
Professor Gaura Narayan Interviewed by the Keats-Shelley Association
Latest News:
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Lara Mimosa Montes ’09 Wins Prestigious Whiting Award
SUNY Purchase alum Lara Mimosa Montes won a 2026 Whiting Award for Fiction, which recognizes emerging writers.
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Join Us for Fall Open House
And discover why you belong here!
SUNY Purchase Open House is your chance to learn all about us through insider campus tours, info sessions with staff and faculty, workshops, a community fair, and more. Registration is open.
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Who is Professor Anthony Domestico’s Favorite Author to Teach?
Learn more in a recent interview conducted by the New York Review of Books.
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Andres Cordoba ’19 Awarded Distinguished Fellowship for Gifted Poets
Cordoba has been named a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.
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Notable Authors in Conversation
Justin Torres, winner of the National Book Award, presented a conversation with National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy. The Durst Lecture Series brings powerful names in literature to campus every year.
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Dana Freeman ’25 Earns Design Scholarship
Presented to undergraduate students, LiveDesign’s Pat MacKay Diversity In Design scholarships support diverse and unique voices in the field of entertainment design.
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Author Jiaming Tang ’18 Discusses Debut Novel
Tang’s return to campus was part of the Durst Distinguished Lecture Series.
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Franco Paz ’16 Signs Book Deal
Penguin Books will publish his yet unfinished PhD dissertation in history, an incredible coup.
Upcoming Events:
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Nov
9
Dan Chiasson in Conversation with Prof. Monica Ferrell
Time: 6:00pmDan Chiasson is the author of five books of poetry, including Bicentennial (2014) and The Math Campers (2020), and a book of literary criticism. His recently published book of nonfiction, Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, was named one of Lit Hub’s most anticipated books of 2026 and was described in the New Yorker as “revelatory.” A longtime contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, Chiasson is the Lorraine Chao Wang Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Wellesley College.
