Faculty News
HOOK to Mark 35th Anniversary With 4K Ultra HD Steelbook ReleaseMFA in Screenwriting faculty member Malia Scotch Marmo co-wrote the screenplay for Hook, the beloved reimagining of Peter Pan.
Hemingson to Adapt Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone for Amazon MGM StudiosMFA in Screenwriting faculty member and Academy Award nominee David Hemingson will adapt the novel Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone for Amazon MGM Studios.
Bennington College Physicist Reveals New Clues to the Shape-Shifting Dance of Dark Matter and Black HolesA new study by physicist and visiting faculty member Dor Ben-Amotz '76, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), sheds new light on what dark matter is made of—and suggests that some of the universe's smallest galaxies may be hiding massive black holes at their centers.
Two Bennington College Faculty Members Awarded Prestigious 2026 Fellowships from the Marion and Jasper Whiting FoundationFaculty members Mariam Rahmani and Sue Rees have been named 2026 Whiting Fellows by the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation.
Richardson Named 2026 Pulitzer Prize FinalistBennington Writing Seminars faculty member Lance Richardson was named a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (Pantheon, 2025).