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Research, Publications, Awards, and More: Highlights from a Semester of Faculty Achievements
Through new books, papers published in journals, media appearances, and more, Bowdoin faculty members complemented their time in the classroom during the fall semester with a variety of scholarly and artistic contributions. -
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Bowdoin’s Brennan and Perkinson on the Humanities, Practical Application of Invaluable Tools in “Inside Higher Ed”
The value and benefits of a liberal arts education steeped in the humanities has worthy champions in Kristin Brennan, executive director of Bowdoin’s Office of Career Exploration and Development (CXD), and Stephen Perkinson, professor of art history. -
Students Read Into a Booming Book Trend in Latin America
This spring, Nadia Celis, a professor of Romance languages and literatures, taught a new class about a burgeoning field of young Latin American women writers. The Bowdoin Library supported her by purchasing more than 300 new novels and nonfiction books, many of them in Spanish. -
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Want to Be in Bowdoin’s First Bilingual Spanish-English Play?
Bowdoin will be staging its first bilingual main season production next year, a reimaginingof the seventeenth-century Spanish comedia classic, Valor, Outrage, and Woman, by Ana Caro de Mallén. Auditions are coming up, and you don’t have to be bilingual to take part. -
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Bowdoin Announces Four Appointments to New Chairs Honoring Distinguished Black Graduates
Bowdoin has appointed a cohort of four accomplished scholars to new endowed faculty professorships honoring distinguished Black graduates of the College. These new positions, which are fully funded by donors, will focus on the interdisciplinary study of race, racism, and racial justice and across themes of environmental justice and belonging, citizenship, and freedom. -
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Borderlands: Ni de aquí ni de allá (neither here nor there)
Xicano writer, painter, unrepentant border crosser, and former disc jockey Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez specializes in Mexican American literature at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he is associate professor, and considers himself a “man of the borderlands.” -
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An Interview with Assistant Professor Irina Popescu About Starting and Building A Life and Career at Bowdoin
Jay Sosa, assistant professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Womens Studies, interviewed Irina Popescu November 15, 2022, about her first year at Bowdoin College as an assistant professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. -