Simon’s Rock News
Highlights from campus and the Simon’s Rock community.
Simon’s Rock Awarded Freedom to Read Grant
March 29, 2024
Bard College at Simon’s Rock was awarded a Freedom to Read Grant by the Newburger Schwartz Family Foundation. The grant was awarded to support the Alumni Library and Bard Queer Leadership Project in building a more robust collection of queer scholarship, starting a Queer Book Club, and hosting Drag Story Time events in partnership with Drag Story Hour of the Berkshires.
Simon's Rock Visiting Faculty in Literature, Fiona Wilson, Completed T.S. Eliot House Residency
March 06, 2024
Simon's Rock Visiting Faculty in Literature and poet Fiona Wilson completed a residency at the Eliot House in Gloucester, MA last October 2023. The Eliot House is the former summer home of T.S. Eliot, the groundbreaking Modernist author.
Maryann Tebben Named Board President of Berkshire Agricultural Ventures
February 29, 2024
Dr. Maryann Tebben, Professor of French, Head of the Center for Food Studies, and the Director of the Center for Food and Resilience at Simon’s Rock, has been named Board President of Berkshire Agricultural Ventures.