News and Events

Professor Gaura Narayan Interviewed by the Keats-Shelley Association

Major NEH Grant Will Support Humanities Initiatives

The $150,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities will support language, literature, and history with a focus on Spanish heritage speakers.
Veteran Journalist Lee Kahrs ’88 Earns Fellowship

She’ll spend time mentoring young journalists in Provincetown, MA.
Professor Elise Lemire Discusses “Black Walden”

Featured in the Washington Post, her book delves into “The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau.”
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.
Honoring Retiring Professor Dr. Kathleen McCormick
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.