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Patricia Vigderman is a graduate of Vassar College, and has a PhD. from Tufts University. The years between those degrees included things like learning to set type by hand, magazine editing, freelance journalism. Later came a serious romance with the art of film, and a lot of time in museums. She has taught at Tufts University, Harvard University, and from 1989 to 2018 at Kenyon College. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, The Nation, New Age Journal, New England Monthly, The New York Times, The Providence Journal, Raritan Quarterly, Seneca Review, Southwest Review, Parabola, Working Papers, and other places.
In 2020, 2018, and 2016 she was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome; in 2019 she was a visiting scholar at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.; in 2010 she was a writing fellow at the Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities, Bogliasco, Italy; in 2002 she was a resident writing fellow at the Lannan Foundation in Marfa, Texas; in 1993-94 she was a J. Paul Getty Associate at the Getty Center for the Arts and Humanities in Los Angeles, California.
She and her husband Lewis Hyde live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.