Writer Dinaw Mengestu named John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor in the Humanities
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — Bard College announces the appointment of esteemed writer Dinaw Mengestu as Catherine T. MacArthur Professor in the Humanities, effective spring 2021. Mengestu, a recipient of the 2012 MacArthur Foundation Award, is director of the Written Arts Program at Bard. He is the author of three novels: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2008), How to Read the Air (2010), and All Our Names (2014). For more information about Bard’s Written Arts Program, please visit writtenarts.bard.edu. âA writer of extraordinary accomplishment and humanity, Dinaw Mengestu has broug...
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