Grad School Panel

Wednesday, Oct 22 2025, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, CAPA Symposium
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Literature Evenings—Fall 2025

Are you considering continuing your studies in Literature after Bennington? Whether you're applying this year or thinking far ahead in the future, please join us for an info panel about MFA and PhD programs in Creative Writing, English, and Comparative Literature.
 
Literature faculty will be joined via Zoom by recent alumni. Panelists will discuss their experiences, and then we will open things up for a Q&A.

Panelists will be in-person and on Zoom, and will include Bennington faculty: 
  • Michael DumanisMFA University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop; PhD University of Houston
  • Alex CreightonMFA Johns Hopkins University; PhD Harvard University
  • Anaïs Duplan '14, MFA University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
  • Mariam RahmaniMFA Columbia University; PhD UCLA
... and three recent alumni currently attending MFA programs:
  • Taha Ahmar Qadeer '25, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Ophelia Broussard '25, NYU
  • Emmett Donovan '24, Sarah Lawrence College

The panel will be moderated by Franny Choi (MFA in Poetry, University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program).