Faculty News

Book cover of The Smoke and the Spoils. It features the title in white across a gray background with black smoke spilling across Hultgren's Latest Book Wins National Honor

Faculty member John Hultgren’s book, The Smoke and the Spoils: Anti-Environmentalism and Class Struggle in the United States, was honored with the Michael Harrington Book Award from the Caucus for a Critical Political Science.

 

Levi Gonzales at podium Making Footholds for Each Other

Levi Gonzales, faculty member in Dance, was the faculty speaker at Convocation 2026. She shared how students may build, rebuild, and discover their sense of home at Bennington and beyond.

Wasted plastic bottles The Problem with Plastic

Judith Enck, CAPA senior fellow and president of Beyond Plastics, spoke with The Columbia Paper reporter Deborah Lans about her co-authored book, The Problem with Plastic. 

Hook 35th anniversary DVD and cover art HOOK to Mark 35th Anniversary With 4K Ultra HD Steelbook Release

MFA in Screenwriting faculty member Malia Scotch Marmo co-wrote the screenplay for Hook, the beloved reimagining of Peter Pan.

David Hemingson Hemingson to Adapt Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone for Amazon MGM Studios

MFA 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.