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Professor Gaura Narayan Interviewed by the Keats-Shelley Association

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  • Latinos Unidos Student Club / Club Fair 2022

    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.

  • Lee Kahrs '88 (Photo by Teresa Parke)

    Veteran Journalist Lee Kahrs ’88 Earns Fellowship

    She’ll spend time mentoring young journalists in Provincetown, MA.
  • A boulder marks the location where Brister Freeman's house is thought to have stood in Walden Woo...

    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

    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 of Literature Elise Lemire

    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.
  • Prof. Emeritus Kathleen McCormick Teaching

    Honoring Retiring Professor Dr. Kathleen McCormick

  • Carl Safina '77 (Photo: Kizza Vincent)

    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.”
  • Spring 2020 Italics Mine cover (Artwork by Mitchell Angelo)

    Italics Mine Has Launched

    The Lily Lieb Port Creative Writing Program proudly presents issue 17 of Italics Mine.
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