Bard College has announced the appointment of award-winning Mexican journalist Alma Guillermoprieto as Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Division of Languages and Literature.
Guillermoprieto began her English-language career in journalism in 1978 and broke the story of the 1981 El Mozote massacre by the army in El Salvador. She has written extensively about Latin America for the Spanish-language media and her writing has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and National Geographic Magazine. She is the author of eight books including “The Heart That Bleeds” and “Looking for History,” is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a George Polk Award and an International Womens”™ Media Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
As a teacher, Guillermoprieto taught the inaugural journalism workshop at the Foundation for New Journalism in Cartagena, Colombia, in 1995 at the request of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and was on its staff through 2010. She has been a visiting professor in both Latin American history and journalism at Chicago University, Harvard, USC-Berkeley and Princeton. She will begin her tenure at the Annandale-on-Hudson school in the fall semester.
