News and Events
Professor Gaura Narayan Interviewed by the Keats-Shelley Association
Latest News:
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Katie Kresek ’98, ’99 Wins Tony Award
She’s the concertmaster and co-orchestrator of Moulin Rouge! the Musical at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway. -
Professor Elise Lemire Discusses New Book on C-SPAN
Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston is Lemire’s third book. -
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Two Purchase Authors Among Most Notable for 2020
Books by Carl Safina ’77 and Garth Greenwell ’01 landed on The New York Times list of “100 Most Notable Books of 2020.” -
Italics Mine Has Launched
The Lily Lieb Port Creative Writing Program proudly presents issue 17 of Italics Mine. -
Garth Greenwell Earns Guggenheim Fellowship
Congratulations to author Garth Greenwell ’01 (literature) for receiving the prestigious award. -
Congratulations to Professor Kathleen McCormick
She was recently honored with the 2019 Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Award. -
Purchase Students Earn SUNY Arts Awards
Two Purchase seniors were recently honored with the SUNY-wide Thayer Fellowship and Patricia Kerr Ross Award.
Upcoming Events:
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Oct
21
Durst Distinguished Lecture Series: Tamara Payne in Conversation with Professor Andrew Salomon
Time: 6:00pmTamara Payne served as the principal researcher on The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. -
Nov
9
Durst Distinguished Lecture Series: Kaitlyn Greenidge in conversation with Professor Mariel Rodney
Time: 6:00pmKaitlyn Greenidge is the author of two novels: We Love You Charlie Freeman, which was named one of the New York Times Critics’ Top Ten Books of 2016 and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; and Libertie, which was named one of the most anticipated books of the year by, among other publications, The Washington Post, Time, and the New York Times. Greenidge is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Currently the Features Director at Harper’s Bazaar, she also serves as a contributing writer for the New York Times.
Individuals requiring accommodations for equal access to this event should contact humanities@purchase.edu a minimum of 5 business days prior to the event.
The Durst Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible by the Roy and Shirley Durst Distinguished Chair in Literature Endowment.
