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10/08/2026

10/06/2026

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10/05/2026

The Crucible
Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck
October 9-25

MAT history professor Wendy Urban-Mead and current MAT history graduate student Harrison Mark worked on providing historical context for the directors and actors. Professor Urban-Mead also has a small role in the play.

This iconic American play about the Salem Witch Trials that also speaks to the McCarthyism moment of the early 1950s is taught in many high schools as part of the grade 11 ELA curriculum and directly ties into 7th grade and 11th grade US History as well as an American Studies course.

For more information and tickets:
https://www.centerforperformingarts.org/whats-playing/crucible

Content Warning: This production contains themes of religion, death, grief, and guilt. It also contains references to and depictions of murder, manslaughter, and witchcraft.

09/28/2026

October Virtual Information Sessions with Dr. Cecilia Maple '01, Director of MAT Admission and Student Affairs.

Learn about program options, the application process, scholarship aid, jobs, and more!

Visit www.bard.edu/mat/admission to RSVP or email [email protected]

09/11/2026

Blasting into space!

Inspired by educator and artist Lynda Barry, students in Professor Jaime Alves’s “Literature Lab: Teaching Writing” course take attendance each week by drawing their own self-portraits.

Students create aliases, too, to remember that we can always discover and "write from" a host of other voices or personae inside of us.

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09/09/2026

Our 2027 - 2028 application is LIVE!

bard.edu/mat to apply
[email protected] to learn more

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08/31/2026

The fall semester begins today.
Welcome back, MATers!

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08/19/2026

On Tuesday we had a visit from a graduate of the MAT's first cohort! April Word (BA '04; MAT '05) stopped by to lunch with professor Wendy Urban-Mead in Tivoli.



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08/05/2026

As we near the end of our summer term, let's take a minute to learn a little about our 2026 - 2027 partner districts where our MAT graduate students will student teach this fall and spring.

As always, a huge THANK YOU to our amazing school partners and dedicated mentor teachers. We can't do this without you.

See you in September!

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07/09/2026

MAT literature students in Professor Derek Furr's Literary Constellations course create visual representations of the connections among texts in the Wuthering Heights constellation.

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