Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Nguyen’s debut ... [Read More]
Fellowships
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Visiting Fellowship and Scholar of Note programs at the American Library in Paris
Writer-in-Residence program at the American Library in Paris
Pen Parentis fellowship
Seven films. One day.
Seven films. One day. Come for one, stay for all. Join us for DOCFEST '17, the annual celebration of the graduating class of documentary filmmakers from the Columbia Journalism School. The morning ... [Read More]
James Verini
James Verini is a magazine journalist who has reported extensively from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. His reporting on the fall of ISIS in Iraq and the battle for Mosul in the New York Times ... [Read More]
Vanessa Manko
Vanessa Manko is the author of The Invention of Exile. She earned her MFA from Hunter College where she was the recipient of a Hertog Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Granta, the New York Times ... [Read More]
Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson is an award-winning writer of books for children and young adults. She is known for Miracle’s Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001, and her Newbery Honor-winning ... [Read More]
Through the Fire
Nyasha Kadandara and Olivia Lace-Evans received the second annual Joyce A. de Groot Memorial Award for THROUGH THE FIRE. Nyasha is a Zimbabwean-born multimedia journalist based in New York and was ... [Read More]
Anna Leahy
Anna Leahy - "As a poet, I'm particularly interested in the ways that form and structure shape content and in the ways that subject matter may lead to particular choices about form. I plan to share ... [Read More]
Doug Dechow
Doug Dechow - "I’m a digital humanist who works, under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, with the Center for American War Letters (CAWL) at Chapman University. This archive ... [Read More]
Megan Mayhew Bergman
Megan Mayhew Bergman was raised in North Carolina and now lives on a small farm in Vermont. She is the Associate Director of Bennington College's MFA program. Megan studied anthropology at Wake ... [Read More]
Lan Samantha Chang
Lan Samantha Chang is a poet and author of Hunger, a collection of short fiction, and two novels, Inheritance and All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Her latest novel, The Family Chao, was published by ... [Read More]
Susan Hiner
Susan Hiner, of Vassar College, worked on her upcoming book: Behind the Seams: Women, Work and Fashion in Nineteenth-Century France while a Visiting Fellow. Professor Hiner's research and teaching ... [Read More]
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of the best selling book, Between the World and Me and the ... [Read More]
Alex Danchev
Alex Danchev was an unorthodox Professor of International Relations at The University of St Andrews. He wrote extensively on art and political violence in the modern period. Some of this work is ... [Read More]
Anthony Flint
Anthony Flint is the Director of Public Policy at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He completed work on his book: Modern Man: The Life of Corbusier while a fellow at the American ... [Read More]