Trinity College Associate Professor of English Ethan Rutherford continues to receive accolades for his debut novel, North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced recently that Rutherford has been recognized with the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Literature, which honors an exceptional novel published in the preceding year. Last fall, North Sun was named by the National Book Foundation as a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction.
Rutherford is among 18 recipients of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’s 2026 Awards in Literature, which honor both established and emerging writers. The 300 members of Arts and Letters nominate candidates for awards, and a rotating committee of writers selects the winners.
The literature awards will be presented alongside the architecture, art, and music awards at Arts and Letters’s annual Ceremonial in May.
Founded in 1898, the American Academy of Arts and Letters represents the highest standards of artistic achievement in the country. Its community of members are among the nation’s leading contemporary architects, visual artists, writers, and composers. Arts and Letters honors creative accomplishment through the election of members, the conferment of awards, and presenting public exhibitions and interdisciplinary programs at its historic buildings in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City.
Read an interview with Rutherford as he discusses his novel here.
Paintings by Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Jenny Wu are part of a two-person exhibition at the Windsor Art Center in Windsor, Connecticut, from November 14, 2026, through January 2, 2027.
Several members of the Trinity College faculty received grant awards in the summer and fall of 2026 to support their academic pursuits.
Trinity College faculty members were recognized for their outstanding achievements in scholarship, teaching, service, and leadership at the 2026 Faculty Excellence Awards ceremony, held October 29 in Mather Hall’s Washington Room.
Pablo Delano’s installation, The Museum of the Old Colony, opens this fall at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP). It brings together around 300 photographs and objects that invite reflection on the history of Puerto Rico.
