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Who is Professor Anthony Domestico’s Favorite Author to Teach?

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0500

Learn more in a recent interview conducted by the New York Review of Books.

Andres Cordoba ’19 Awarded Distinguished Fellowship for Gifted Poets

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0400

Cordoba has been named a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow.

Notable Authors in Conversation

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0500

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.

Dana Freeman ’25 Earns Design Scholarship

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Presented to undergraduate students, LiveDesign's Pat MacKay Diversity In Design scholarships support diverse and unique voices in the field of entertainment design.

Author Jiaming Tang ’18 Discusses Debut Novel

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 04:00:00 -0400

Tang's return to campus was part of the Durst Distinguished Lecture Series.

Franco Paz ’16 Signs Book Deal

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 04:00:00 -0400

Penguin Books will publish his yet unfinished PhD dissertation in history, an incredible coup.

Debut Novel by Jiaming “Andy” Tang ’18 Coming in 2024

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Cinema Love will be published by Dutton Books and John Murray Press in 2024.

Major NEH Grant Will Support Humanities Initiatives

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 05:00:00 -0500

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

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 05:00:00 -0500

She'll spend time mentoring young journalists in Provincetown, MA.

Professor Elise Lemire Discusses “Black Walden”

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 05:00:00 -0500

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

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 04:00:00 -0400

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

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 04:00:00 -0400

Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston is Lemire's third book.

Honoring Retiring Professor Dr. Kathleen McCormick

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 04:00:00 -0400

Two Purchase Authors Among Most Notable for 2020

Wed, 25 Nov 2020 05:00:00 -0500

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

Fri, 22 May 2020 04:00:00 -0400

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

Garth Greenwell Earns Guggenheim Fellowship

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 04:00:00 -0400

Congratulations to author Garth Greenwell '01 (literature) for receiving the prestigious award.

Congratulations to Professor Kathleen McCormick

Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:00:00 -0400

She was recently honored with the 2019 Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Award.

Purchase Students Earn SUNY Arts Awards

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 04:00:00 -0400

Two Purchase seniors were recently honored with the SUNY-wide Thayer Fellowship and Patricia Kerr Ross Award.

Jazz Performers Inspired by Poetry

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 04:00:00 -0400

On Wednesday, April 10, an audience packed the Neuberger Museum of Art's Center Gallery to hear jazz musicians interpret the poetry of Kevin Young.

Danniel Schoonebeek ’08 Earns NEA Award

Fri, 08 Mar 2019 05:00:00 -0500

The National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing (Poetry) Fellowship is $25,000.

Professor Gaura Narayan Interviews World-Renowned Author Salman Rushdie at the PAC

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Purchase Professor and Students Featured in Chancellor’s Inauguration

Mon, 17 Sep 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Anthony Domestico, associate professor of literature, offers remarks on behalf of the faculty of SUNY and Conservatory of Music students perform.

Lit Seniors and Faculty Celebrate!

Tue, 15 May 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Creative Writer Wins Prestigious Contest

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Jiaming "Andy" Tang '18 earns a Breakout 8 Writers Prize.

Lit Seniors Rock the Humanities Awards!

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Eight Lit seniors took home major prizes from the Humanities Awards Luncheon on 4/25!

Three Students Honored for Excellence by SUNY

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 04:00:00 -0400

Congratulations to seniors Dolan Wells Gallagher, Hayley Restivo, and Joy Marie Thompson for earning the 2018 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence.

Author Neil Gaiman Offered Advice for Students

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 05:00:00 -0500

This year's Roy and Shirley Durst Distinguished Chair in Literature, Michael Chabon, welcomed his longtime friend, Neil Gaiman, for a wide-ranging and warm discussion.

Prof. Gaura Narayan interviewed at MLA

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:00:00 -0500

Professor of Literature Elise Lemire Tours Walden Woods on PBS

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 05:00:00 -0500

The award-winning series Windows to the Wild explores what life for Thoreau was really like in Walden Woods.

Purchase is All in the Antar Family

Wed, 20 Dec 2017 05:00:00 -0500

Five family members have all chosen to study at Purchase.

Journalism Professor Pays it Forward

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 05:00:00 -0500

Andrew Salomon has endowed a fund for aspiring journalists.

Durst Lectures Feature Top Authors

Wed, 18 Oct 2017 04:00:00 -0400

The only two Americans to have ever won the prestigious Man Booker Prize both spoke at Purchase in 2017.

Film by Andrea Torrice ’77 to be Developed for PBS

Wed, 14 Jun 2017 04:00:00 -0400

Documentary film short focuses on school desegregation in 1950s Ohio.

Scholar Athletes Honored by SUNY

Thu, 04 May 2017 04:00:00 -0400

Three students selected for their success on and off the field and court.

Ivan Forde ’12 Awarded Prestigious Fellowship

Wed, 19 Apr 2017 04:00:00 -0400

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans recognizes immigrants and the children of immigrants.

Garth Greenwell ’01 on Shortlist for PEN/Faulkner Award

Wed, 08 Mar 2017 05:00:00 -0500

His debut novel What Belongs To You among five chosen as finalists.

Jenna Marcus ’09

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 05:00:00 -0500

Teacher who loves opening students up to literature.

Danniel Schoonebeek ’08 Releases Second Book to Critical Acclaim

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 05:00:00 -0500

Trebuchet is the author's second book of poems.

Blue Balloon Songwriting School Founded by Rachel Lipson ’03

Fri, 03 Feb 2017 05:00:00 -0500

Lipton has a unique approach to teaching music to kids and adults.

Two Professors Find Inspiration Teaching in Prison

Mon, 12 Dec 2016 05:00:00 -0500

Aviva Taubenfeld and Lisa Jean Moore taught courses off-site at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.