Jhumpa Lahiri, Barnard College - Class Speaker - 2024 Induction Weekend

Jhumpa Lahiri, a bilingual writer and translator, is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She spoke at the Induction Ceremony for new members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2024.