Marina van Zuylen, author: ‘We spend our lives acting for others’

Marina van Zuylen, author: ‘We spend our lives acting for others’

Academic and writer Marina van Zuylen, who holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard, left Columbia to become a professor at Bard College because she also wanted to devote herself to an unusual project hosted there: the Clemente Course in the Humanities, which offers free humanities courses that can later be converted into college credits. She taught there voluntarily for 25 years, until a philanthropist decided to fund the initiative a…