Author: The Mount Programs

2023 Summer Lecture with Michael Frank

August 29, 2023November 3, 2023 Lecture, PRERECORDED

Frank is a recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. His most recent publication is the remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi, whose conversations with the author over the course of ... Read more

2023 Summer Lecture with Gene Andrew Jarrett

August 22, 2023November 3, 2023 Lecture, PRERECORDED

Jarrett is dean of the faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University. His third book is a comprehensive biography of the legendary African American Poet Paul ... Read more

2023 Summer Lecture with David Kertzer

August 15, 2023November 3, 2023 Lecture, PRERECORDED

Kertzer is the Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science at Brown University and Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies. Based on newly opened Vatican archives, The Pope at War ... Read more

2023 Summer Lecture with Joseph Luzzi

August 8, 2023November 3, 2023 Lecture, PRERECORDED

Luzzi is literature professor at Bard College and the author of five books. His most recent work, Botticelli’s Secret, shows not only how the Renaissance came to life, but also ... Read more

2023 Summer Lecture with Paul Fisher

August 1, 2023November 3, 2023 Lecture, PRERECORDED

Fisher is the biographer and chair of American Studies at Wellesley College, whose books bring to life American literary and artistic expatriates of the Belle Époque. His most recent biography ... Read more

2023 Summer Lecture with Zhuqing Li

July 25, 2023November 3, 2023 Lecture, PRERECORDED

Zhuqing Li is a professor at Brown University and a faculty curator at the University’s Rockefeller Library. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden follows the extraordinary lives of her two ... Read more

2023 Summer Lecture with Sally Bedell Smith

July 18, 2023November 3, 2023 Lecture, PRERECORDED

Smith is the New York Times best-selling author of eight biographies on the Royal Family and American political figures. Her latest book is the definitive biography of the late Queen ... Read more

2023 Lecture Series with Willard Spiegelman

July 11, 2023November 3, 2023 Lecture, PRERECORDED

Speigelman is the Hughes Professor of English, emeritus, at Southern Methodist University. He was the first Amy Clampitt Fellow in Stockbridge, where he assembled the edition of the poet’s letters. ... Read more

2023 Gala Celebration: War Panel

July 1, 2023November 3, 2023 Discussion, PRERECORDED

Washington Post columnist Max Boot, international affairs correspondent Anne Nelson, and New York Times contributor Ted Widmer share their war-reporting experiences and observations on ongoing global conflicts, including the war ... Read more

2023 Gala Celebration: Wharton Panel

June 30, 2023November 3, 2023 Discussion, PRERECORDED

Wharton specialists and literary experts Jennifer Haytock, Sheila Liming, and Nathan Wolff share their views on why Edith Wharton’s writings remain relevant today, moderated by Wharton scholar and Barnard College ... Read more