Core Faculty
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Éric Trudel
(Director, Literature Program)Professor of French and William Frauenfelder Professor in the College
Director, Literature and French Studies Programs
Codirector, Center for Faculty and Curricular Development
Office: Hopson 102
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7121
Éric Trudel
(Director, Literature Program)Professor of French and William Frauenfelder Professor in the College
Director, Literature and French Studies Programs
Codirector, Center for Faculty and Curricular Development
Office: Hopson 102
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7121
Professor Trudel is the author of La Terreur à l’œuvre: théorie, poétique et éthique chez Jean Paulhan (Paris, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, coll. “L’imaginaire du texte,” 2007), and of several scholarly articles and volume chapters on 19th, 20th and 21st-century French and Francophone Literatures. He coedited Poétiques de la liste et imaginaire sériel (Montréal, Nota Bene, 2019), "Tout peut servir." Pratiques et enjeux du détournement dans le discours littéraire des XXe et XXIe siècles (Québec, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2011), Jean Paulhan on Poetry and Politics (Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 2008), and oversaw issues of the journals LHT (Crises de lisibilité, 16, 2016, online) and L'Esprit Créateur (“Avant-garde & Arrière-garde in Modernist Literature”, 53/3, 2013; “The Documentary Mode”, 61/2, 2021).
BA, Concordia University, Montreal; MA, French literature, McGill University; PhD, Romance languages, Princeton University. At Bard since 2002. -
Jaime AlvesAssociate Professor of Literature and MAT Faculty Chair, Master of Arts in Teaching Program; and Faculty Associate, IWT
Office: MAT Building, 105
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7112
Jaime Alves
Associate Professor of Literature and MAT Faculty Chair, Master of Arts in Teaching Program; and Faculty Associate, IWT
Office: MAT Building, 105
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7112
Jaime Alves is an associate professor of literature and the MAT faculty chair in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College.
American literature and culture, especially 19th and early 20th centuries; domesticity and gender; science, medicine, and disability studies; newspapers, periodicals and archival research; museums, freak shows, and other performances as purveyors of knowledge and sites of informal learning; literature, writing, and discussion in secondary school English Language Arts curriculum and instruction. -
Franco BaldassoAssistant Professor of Italian; Director, Italian Studies
Office: Seymour 206
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7377
Franco Baldasso
Assistant Professor of Italian; Director, Italian Studies
Office: Seymour 206
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7377
Franco Baldasso, FAAR ’19, is Assistant Professor of Italian and Director of the Italian Program. His main research interests are 20th and 21st century literature, art and cultural history, the relations between Fascism and Modernism, political violence and its memory, and the idea of the Mediterranean in modern aesthetics.
He authored two books in Italian: Il cerchio di gesso. Primo Levi narratore e testimone (2007), and Curzio Malaparte, la letteratura crudele. Kaputt, La pelle e la caduta della civiltà europea (2019). He also co-edited an issue of Nemla-Italian Studies titled “Italy in WWII and the Transition to Democracy: Memory, Fiction, Histories” (2014).
Franco is the recipient of the 2019 Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies from the American Academy in Rome. His research has been supported by the A.W. Mellon Foundation, the Center for Italian Modern Art in New York, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Remarque Institute at NYU.
His articles have appeared in Modern Language Notes, Romance Notes, The Italianist, Italian Modern Art, Context, Nemla-Italian Studies, Annali d’Italianistica, Allegoria, Poetiche, Scritture Migranti, Tradurre, Przeglad Polityczny, publicbooks.org, leparoleelecose.it, alfabeta2.it.
Franco is a member of the Advisory Board of the journal Allegoria, and of the “Archivio della Memoria” of the Centro Studi sulla Grande Guerra “P. Pieri” in Vittorio Veneto (TV). He is currently finalizing a book manuscript titled: “Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory and Literature in Post-fascist Italy.”
Laurea in Lettere Moderne, Università degli Studi di Bologna; MA, PhD, New York University. At Bard since 2015. -
Thomas BartschererPeter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities
Office: Hegeman Science Hall, 303
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7142
Thomas Bartscherer
Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities
Office: Hegeman Science Hall, 303
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7142
Ancient Greek and modern German literature and philosophy, particularly those points at which they intersect, and related topics in aesthetics, ethics, and moral psychology; dramatic literature (particularly tragedy and theories of the tragic), theatre, and performance; technology and science in relation to the humanities; contemporary art and poetry; Rezeptionsgeschichte; critique genetique; liberal arts education and pedagogy. -
Alex Benson
Alex Benson
Alex Benson (PhD, UC Berkeley) teaches across a wide span of American literary and cultural history. In his classes—often cross-listed in American & Indigenous Studies, Environmental & Urban Studies, Experimental Humanities, and Human Rights—students connect the close reading of literary texts with the analysis of music and film, with philosophies of everyday language use, and with the social and ecological wake of North American colonization. His forthcoming first book, Sound-Blind, explores the politics of transcription across literature, ethnography, and popular media, while a second book project in development focuses on narratives of species extinction.
Selected publications:
• “A Laboratory Fancy” by John M. Oskison. PMLA 137.1 (2022): 107–11.
• Rat-Fall: Time and Taxa in the Colorado River Delta, c. 1900. Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures, ed. McCullough et al. (Lexington Books, 2021): 123–42.
• Nineteenth-Century Shock Value. Review essay. Syndicate, Feb. 2021.
• Gossypoglossia: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Pragmatics of Dialogue. Narrative 27.2 (2019): 201–20.
• “Bartleby” on Speed. Leviathan 21.1 (2019): 120–37.
• T’rough Accident: Utterance and Evolution in Songs of Jamaica. Small Axe 20.1 (2016): 1–16.
• Gatsby’s Tattoo: Gesture, Tic, and Description. Criticism 46.4 (2014): 725–59. -
Jonathan BrentVisiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature
Office: Preston 116
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-6822
Jonathan Brent
Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature
Office: Preston 116
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-6822
Jonathan Brent is a historian, publisher, translator, writer and teacher. At Yale University Press (1991-2009) he established the Annals of Communism series. His books include Stalin’s Last Crime (2003); and Inside the Stalin Archives (2008).
In 2009, Brent became Executive Director and CEO of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research where he initiated The YIVO Vilna Collection Project in 2014. In 2019 Jonathan Brent received the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania presented by H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania.
Brent lectures and publishes widely on Jewish, Soviet and East European history and is Alger Hiss Visiting Professor at Bard College. -
John Burns
John Burns
Professor Burns is an educator, poet, translator, and the author of Contemporary Hispanic Poets: Cultural Production in the Global, Digital Age (Cambria Press, 2015). He has also authored books chapters, including “Teaching Infrarrealistas: Using Lesser Known Contemporary Poets in the Undergraduate Classroom” in Teaching Latin American Poetries (forthcoming) and “From Manifesto to Manifestation: The Infrarrealista Movement as an Alternative Latin American Literary Community,” in Alternative Communities in Hispanic Literature and Culture; and articles and book reviews in publications such as Film International (web), 1616: Anuario de Literatura Comparada, and Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources. His publications also include translations—of the Chilean poet Raúl Hernández and Galician poet Salvador García-Bodaño, as well as translations of the Beat poets into Spanish—and his own creative work. He has been invited to lecture, read, or present papers throughout the world, including at venues in Japan, Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia, Canada, New York City, and Madison, Wisconsin, among others. He previously taught at Bard High School Early College Queens, Rockford University in Illinois, and Kobe College in Japan, where he served as Visiting Researcher. BA, University of Maine–Orono; MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin–Madison. At Bard since 2019. -
Mary CaponegroRichard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing;
Codirector, Written Arts Program
Office:Shafer House 303
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7891
Mary Caponegro
Richard B. Fisher Family Professor in Literature and Writing;
Codirector, Written Arts Program
Office:Shafer House 303
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7891
Fiction writing, contemporary fiction, modernism, post-modernism. -
Nicole Caso
Nicole Caso
Professor Caso’s areas of expertise include Hispanic languages and literature and Latin American literature. She is the author of Practicing Memory in Central American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); has contributed a chapter to The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature; and explored the implications of literacy in “‘Walking the Path of Letters’: Negotiating Assimilation and Difference in Contemporary Mayan Literature,” published in CHASQUI: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana. Additionally, her work has been published in scholarly journals such as Revista Iberoamericana and Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos, among others; and she has contributed to critical compilations analyzing novelists such as Manlio Argueta and Rosa María Britton. Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century narratives of Latin America, Central American literature, subaltern studies, memory and literature, the cultural production of collective identities, the limits of representation through writing, literature and human rights, ethics and representation, and theories of space and place. Teaching interests include Spanish for heritage speakers, Latin American testimonio, the city in Latin American fiction, literature of human rights in Latin America, historical fiction, and crafting Mayan identities. AB, Harvard University; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. At Bard since 2004. -
Maria Sachiko Cecire
(on leave)
Maria Sachiko Cecire
(on leave)
Cecire's research and teaching interests include children’s literature and youth culture, media and digital studies, medieval literature and its afterlives, and the role of the humanities in contemporary society. She is the author of Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century (2019), which explores transformations in Anglo-American popular culture in terms of institutional power, the legacies of racism and colonialism, and political and affective uses of childhood and the mythological past. She is also coeditor of Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789–Present (2015), author of a number of articles and essays, and a national project scholar for the American Library Association’s Great Stories Club, which supports reading and discussion groups for underserved US teens in juvenile justice, alternative school, youth outreach, and other settings. -
Robert Cioffi
Robert Cioffi
Robert Cioffi received his BA and PhD from Harvard University and an MSt from the University of Oxford. He loves ancient Greek novels, ghosts, and narratives of travel and ethnography, from Homer’s Odyssey to Heliodorus’ An Ethiopian Story (third or fourth century CE). He is particularly interested in the intersection of (ancient) empires and literary expression, and in the interactions between the literatures of Greece and Egypt. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. In addition to his scholarly work, he sometimes contributes to the London Review of Books and always watches too much television. -
Lauren Curtis
Lauren Curtis
Professor Lauren Curtis teaches Ancient Greek and Latin language, literature, history, and culture at Bard College. Some of her regular courses include The Roman World: An Introduction, Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World, Beginning Latin, and Beginning Ancient Greek. Her research focuses on dance, music, and the performing arts in Ancient Greece and Rome, as well as Latin poetry and Roman intellectual culture of the first century BCE. Her first book, Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Her most recent book, Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds (co-edited with Naomi Weiss) will be published in August 2021. She is the author of articles in TAPA, Classical Philology, Arethusa, and Vergilius, is a member of the international research group IDA (Improntas de danza antigua: textos, cuerpos, imágenes, movimiento), and is a trustee of the International Ovidian Society. Professor Curtis holds a BA (Hons.) from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Classics from Harvard University. She is always eager to meet students who are interested in learning more about the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds. -
Deirdre d’AlbertisVice President and Dean of the College
Professor of English
Office: Ludlow 208
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7242
Deirdre d’Albertis
Vice President and Dean of the College
Professor of English
Office: Ludlow 208
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7242
Deirdre d'Albertis is Professor of English at Bard College and the author of Dissembling Fictions: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Social Text as well as an editor of the Pickering and Chatto complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. She has published widely on Victorian women of letters including Emily Bronte, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Bronte, Eliza Lynn Linton, Hannah Cullwick, and Mary Howitt among others. Her current research is focused on transnational feminist networks and social reform in nineteenth-century Britain, America, and Northern Europe. -
Ziad Dallal
Ziad Dallal
Ziad Dallal is Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic at Bard College. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. His first research project, Arab Literary Politics, studies how nineteenth century Arab authors deployed the discourse of civilization in their literary narratives to imagine their place in the modern world. His second research project, Uneventful Literature, investigates a trend in contemporary Arabic literature that rejects a commitment to politics as a structuring event. His research is informed by political philosophy, critical theory, and translation theory and praxis. -
Mark DannerJames Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities
Office: Aspinwall 108
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 917-513-5049
Website: www.markdanner.com
Mark Danner
James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities
Office: Aspinwall 108
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 917-513-5049
Website: www.markdanner.com
Mark Danner is a writer and reporter who for 25 years has written on politics and foreign affairs, focusing on war and conflict. He has covered, among many other stories, wars and political conflict in Central America, Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq and the Middle East, and, most recently, the story of torture during the War on Terror. Danner is James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College and Chancellor’s Professor of Journalism, English, and Politics at the University of California, Berkeley. -
Adhaar Noor Desai
Adhaar Noor Desai
Adhaar Noor Desai teaches courses on Shakespeare, Poetry, Jokes, Fictional Characters, and Cultural Studies and is one of the co-founders of the OSUN-funded Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network. He is working on his first book, tentatively titled "Shakespeare and the Scene of Writing," which argues that studying the writing habits of early modern authors can help improve writing instruction in the modern literature classroom. His research also studies how literature intersects with the history of science and technology, political activism, and popular media and has appeared or is forthcoming in English Literary Renaissance, Philological Quarterly, Configurations, Publicity and the Early Modern Stage, and Teaching Social Justice through Shakespeare. -
Nuruddin FarahDistinguished Professor of Literature, Africana Studies, Human Rights, Foreign Languages and Cultures Office: Hegeman 303
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7535
Nuruddin Farah
Distinguished Professor of Literature, Africana Studies, Human Rights, Foreign Languages and Cultures Office: Hegeman 303
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7535
Distinguished Professor of Literature,Africana Studies, Foreign Languages, and Cultures. Somali novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter. Educated at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Works include two trilogies, Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorshipand Blood in the Sun, and several novels, novellas, short stories, plays. International prizes include the Premio Cavour (Italy), the Kurt Tucholsky Prize (Sweden), the Lettre Ulysses Award (Berlin), and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In recent years he has been a perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. At Bard: 2010–11; 2013– -
Peter Filkins
Peter Filkins
Peter Filkins is a Visiting Professor of Literature at Bard and Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Bard College at Simon's Rock. At Bard he teaches courses on translation and German literature in translation. He is a poet and translator whose most recent book of poetry is Water / Music (Johns Hopkins 2021), and who has translated the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann and three novels by H.G. Adler. His biography, H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds, appeared from Oxford UP in 2019. -
Elizabeth FrankJoseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature
Office: Aspinwall 303
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7220
Elizabeth Frank
Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature
Office: Aspinwall 303
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7220
Los Angeles native and daughter of the late writer-producer-director Melvin Frank, Elizabeth Frank is the Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Bard College. She spent her high school years in London and Geneva. After two and a half years at Bennington College, she transferred to U.C. Berkeley, where she finished her undergraduate work and went on to receive a Ph.D. In 1973, she began research on a critical biography of poet Louise Bogan (1897-1970), which won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. In 2004, she published the novel Cheat and Charmer, about a Hollywood family caught up in the turmoil of the McCarthy period. Frank is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. Throughout the seventies and eighties, she wrote frequently about art for such magazines as Art in America and Artnews, and published a brief introduction to the work of Jackson Pollock with Abbeville Press. She published as well a monograph on painter Esteban Vicente (Hudson HIlls), and, recently, a monograph on painter Karen Gunderson, again with Abbeville. She has co-translated two novels--Isaac's Torah, and Farewell, Shanghai--by Bulgarian screenwriter and novelist Angel Wagenstein, both published by Other Press. Frank continues to write fiction and is working on a monograph about painter Susan Crile. Her teaching interests include American literature ("all of it, from the Puritans to last Tuesday"), major Jewish authors, the literature of the Balkans, Russian literature, and poetry. Since 1982, she has been a member of the literature faculty at Bard College. Frank's adult daughter is a Bard alum and former Russian Studies major, and her brother Andrew Frank, a composer, graduated from Bard in 1968. "I love teaching at Bard." she says, "The students are wonderful,the small classes so full of excitement and discovery, and the campus always so lovely in every season." She lives in New York City (because of the museums, parks, bookstores and infinite places to walk), and travels every year to Sofia, Bulgaria. -
Derek FurrEnglish Faculty, Director of MAT Program
Office: MAT Building, 101
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7136
Derek Furr
English Faculty, Director of MAT Program
Office: MAT Building, 101
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7136
Derek Furr is Dean of Teacher Education and a literature professor in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard College. He also teaches for the Bard Prison Initiative and the Institute for Writing and Thinking. He is the author of three books--Recorded Poetry and Poetic Reception from Edna Millay to the Circle of Robert Lowell (Palgrave 2010), Suite For Three Voices (Fomite 2012), and Semitones (Fomite 2015)--and has recent work in Jacket2, Twentieth Century Literature, and Raritan. Before coming to Bard, he was an English Language Arts teacher and reading specialist in the Charlottesville City Schools. B.A., Wake Forest University; M.Ed., University of Virginia; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia -
Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham
Victorian literature, nineteenth-century European novels; the intersection of nineteenth-century fiction, science, and historiography; canon formation, history of pedagogy. -
Donna Ford GroverVisiting Associate Professor of Literature and American Studies
Office: Fairbairn 104
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7648
Donna Ford Grover
Visiting Associate Professor of Literature and American Studies
Office: Fairbairn 104
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7648
American literature, including African-American literature and Asian-American literature; William Faulkner; Caribbean literature; American Gothic; literature by Americans abroad; literature by women; feminism; domesticity. -
Rebecca Cole Heinowitz
Rebecca Cole Heinowitz
English literature, especially Romanticism, with an emphasis on poetics, imperialism, the gothic, and psychoanalysis; twentieth-century and contemporary British and American poetry, including the Second Generation New York School and Language Poetry; writing poetry. -
Elizabeth M. HoltAssociate Professor of Arabic; Director Middle Eastern Studies
Office: RKC 202
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7676
Elizabeth M. Holt
Associate Professor of Arabic; Director Middle Eastern Studies
Office: RKC 202
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7676
Modern Arabic literature, in particular the novel; serialization and history of the Arabic press; legacies of Francophonie in the Arab world and its diaspora; A Thousand and One Nights; Arab women's writing and the politics of feminism in the Arab world; translation theory and practice; Arabic language pedagogy; theories of nationalism and the production of literary space. https://middleeastern.bard.edu/elizabeth-m-holt/ -
Hua Hsu
Hua Hsu
Hua Hsu is the author of Stay True: A Memoir (Doubleday, 2022) and A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific (Harvard University Press, 2016). He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, having previously contributed to Artforum, Slate, the Village Voice, and The Wire (UK). He served on the editorial board of A New Literary History of America (HUP, 2009) and his scholarly work has been published in American Quarterly, Criticism, PMLA, and Genre. He currently serves on the boards of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Critical Minded, an initiative to support cultural critics of color. Hsu previously taught at Vassar College. He was formerly a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. He publishes a zine about music and life called Suspended in Time. He is currently working on an essay collection titled Impostor Syndrome. -
Thomas KeenanProfessor of Comparative Literature Director, Human Rights Program
Office: Arendt Center 202
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7086
Website: www.bard.edu/hrp
Thomas Keenan
Professor of Comparative Literature Director, Human Rights Program
Office: Arendt Center 202
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7086
Website: www.bard.edu/hrp
Thomas Keenan is Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College, where he teaches human rights, media studies, and literature and directs the Human Rights Project as well as Bard’s B.A. program in Human Rights. He is also affiliated with the Center for Experimental Humanities and the Center for Curatorial Studies.
Within the framework of the Open Society University Network, he serves as project co-leader for the Threatened Scholars Initiative as well as the Program in Human Rights and the Arts.
He is the author of Fables of Responsibility, Stanford UP 1997; and, with Eyal Weizman, Mengele’s Skull, Sternberg Press 2012. He is co-editor, with Wendy Chun, of New Media, Old Media, Routledge 2006, 2nd ed. 2015. He also co-edited two books, produced jointly with Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies: The Human Snapshot, Luma 2013 with Tirdad Zolghadr, and The Flood of Rights, Luma 2017, co-edited with Suhail Malik and Tirdad Zolghadr. Some of his writing can be found at https://bard.academia.edu/ThomasKeenan.
He serves on the boards of a number of human rights organizations and journals, including Forensic Architecture; the Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies; Scholars at Risk; The Journal of Human Rights; and Humanity. -
Robert KellyAsher B. Edelman Professor Emeritus of Literature
Office: Shafer House
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7205
Website: www.rk-ology.com
Robert Kelly
Asher B. Edelman Professor Emeritus of Literature
Office: Shafer House
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7205
Website: www.rk-ology.com
Poetry, and many other topics. -
Franz R. Kempf
Franz R. Kempf
M.A. in German, M.A. in Russian, University of Utah; Ph.D., Harvard University. Author, Poetry, Painting, Park: Goethe and Claude Lorrain (2020), Everyone’s Darling: Kafka and the Critics of His Short Fiction (1994), Albrecht von Hallers Ruhm als Dichter: Eine Rezeptionsgeschichte (1986), Deutsche Gegenwart (1985, with Robert E. Helbling). Articles and papers on José F. A. Oliver, Goethe, Fontane, Kafka, Brecht, Dürrenmatt, von Haller, Wieland, and language pedagogy. Book reviews for several scholarly journals. Editorial advisory board, Die Unterrichtspraxis and Colloquia Germanica. President, Hudson Valley Chapter, American Association of Teachers of German (1990–92). At Bard since 1985. -
Marina Kostalevsky
Marina Kostalevsky
Russian literature; Symbolism and Russian religious philosophy; Russian modernism; the relation between literature, music, and theater. -
Ann M. LauterbachDavid and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature
Office: Shafer House 201
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7241
Ann M. Lauterbach
David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature
Office: Shafer House 201
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7241
Ann Lauterbach was born and grew up in Manhattan, where she studied painting at the High School of Music and Art. She received her BA (English) from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and went on to graduate work (English) at Columbia University on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. She lived in London for seven years, working as an editor, teacher, and curator of literary events at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Her early poems were published in England. Returning to New York in 1974, Lauterbach worked in art galleries and began to publish poetry and art criticism. She has taught in the Writing programs at Brooklyn College, Columbia, Princeton, Iowa, City College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. From 2007-2011 she was a visiting Core Critic (Sculpture) at the Yale School of Art. In 2006, she was a Faculty poet for the Summer Literary Seminars in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2013 she was named Distinguished Sherry Poet at the University of Chicago; her work was the subject of a seminar in Paris in 2014, and a collection, in French, was subsequently published by Joca Seria. Her poems have also been translated into Spanish and German. Lauterbach has written on artists Joe Brainard, Jessica Stockholder, Taylor Davis, Kenji Fujita and Cheyney Thompson, among others, and for the exhibition “Whole Fragment” at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery in Reno, Nevada. She has published ten collections of poetry, most recently Spell (Penguin, 2018). Her prose has been collected in The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (Viking, 2006); The Given & The Chosen, and Saint Petersburg Notebook.
Lauterbach has received fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Her 2009 collection, Or to Begin Again, was nominated for a National Book Award.
She is a contributing editor of Conjunctions. She was, from 1991-2020, co-Chair of Writing in the interdisciplinary Milton Avery School of the Arts and, since 1997, Ruth and David Schwab II Professor of Languages and Literature, at Bard College. Her archive is housed in the Beinecke Library at Yale University. -
Marisa Libbon
Marisa Libbon
Marisa Libbon was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her BA, MA, and PhD in English, and at Oxford University, where she received an MPhil in Medieval English Studies (1100-1500). She specializes in the literature of medieval Britain and in book history, especially the codicology and paleography of medieval manuscript-books. Her research and teaching interests include history writing, hagiography, insular political culture, multilingualism, and textual and cultural transmission. She has published and has forthcoming articles on crusading romances in their manuscript contexts, the intersection of history writing and rumor during crusade, and the circulation of medieval England’s popular culture in the thirteenth century. Her first book, Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England (The Ohio State University Press, 2021), argues that talk among medieval England’s public, especially talk about history and identity, was essential to the production of texts and was a fundamental part of the transmission and reception of literature. In addition to her interests in the very old, she also studies post-modern and contemporary poetry. At Bard, she primarily teaches courses on early British literature and medieval manuscripts in the Literature Program and in the Medieval Studies and Experimental Humanities concentrations. -
Pete L'Official
Pete L'Official
Peter L’Official teaches courses in African American literature and culture, twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature, and across the American literature sequence at Bard, where he is affiliated with the American Studies, Africana Studies, and Environmental and Urban Studies programs, as well as the Experimental Humanities concentration, and the Architecture Initiative. His research is primarily concerned with how literature, place, architecture, and the visual arts intersect, and his research interests include Black and Afro-Latinx culture, contemporary art, the cultural politics of architecture and urban design, aesthetics and visual culture, and urban history. His first book, Urban Legends: the South Bronx in Representation and Ruin, was published by Harvard University Press in 2020, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. -
Patricia Lopez-Gay
Patricia Lopez-Gay
Contemporary Spanish literature, with a strong interest in visual art and comparative literature (Spain, France, Brazil); Academic Program Affiliations Latin American and Iberian Studies; research focus theories of the archive, autobiography, translation studies, and historiography. -
Joseph LuzziAsher B. Edelman Professor of Literature
Office:Seymour 204
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7150
Website: www.josephluzzi.com
Joseph Luzzi
Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature
Office:Seymour 204
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7150
Website: www.josephluzzi.com
Dante; Italian and European Romanticism; Renaissance Florence; Italian cinema; modern Italian culture and society; issues in comparative literary studies; the Enlightenment. -
Daniel MendelsohnCharles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities
Office: Seymour 106
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7450
Website: www.danielmendelsohn.com
Daniel Mendelsohn
Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities
Office: Seymour 106
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7450
Website: www.danielmendelsohn.com
Memoirist, critic, translator, literary journalist. Contributes essays on literature, theater, film and television to many major publications, primarily The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times. Primary interests: Classical Literature, especially Greek tragedy and Homeric Epic; Holocaust literature; gay and lesbian literature; Modern Greek literature, especially Constantine Cavafy. -
Alys MoodyAssociate Professor of Literature; Co-Director, First Year Seminar
Office: Aspinwall 108
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7221
Alys Moody
Associate Professor of Literature; Co-Director, First Year Seminar
Office: Aspinwall 108
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7221
Alys Moody teaches and writes about modernism and world literature. She is the author of The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism and the editor, with Stephen J. Ross, of Global Modernists on Modernism: An Anthology. She is currently writing a book about world hunger and world literature, and translating the collected essays of the Martinican decolonial literary critic, René Ménil. In September 2021, she will begin a four-year term as the co-editor of the journal Modernism/modernity. Born and raised in country Australia, she lived and taught in France, the UK, New Zealand and Australia before coming to Bard in 2019. -
Bradford MorrowProfessor of Literature; Bard Center Fellow; Editor, Conjunctions
Office: Shafer House
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7054
Bradford Morrow
Professor of Literature; Bard Center Fellow; Editor, Conjunctions
Office: Shafer House
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7054
Bradford Morrow is a Professor of Literature and Bard Center Fellow, L&L and Written Arts, 1990—present (BA, University of Colorado, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; Yale University, Danforth Fellow). Editor, Conjunctions.
Morrow is the author of nine novels, including Come Sunday, The Almanac Branch (PEN/Faulkner Award finalist), Trinity Fields (Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist), Giovanni’s Gift, Ariel’s Crossing, The Diviner’s Tale, The Forgers, The Prague Sonata, and The Forger’s Daughter, a collection of stories, The Uninnocent, along with other fiction publications including Fall of the Birds and The Nature of My Inheritance. His work has been translated into over 12 languages. He founded and edits the acclaimed literary journal, Conjunctions, which is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this year, the last three decades of which have been published by Bard College. As well as editing some 75 book-length issues of Conjunctions, featuring the work of over a thousand writers, Morrow edits the journal’s weekly online publication which has a large and international readership.
Recipient of various awards, among them the Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2007 PEN/Nora Magid Award, Morrow has further edited a number of anthologies and books, among them The New Gothic (with Patrick McGrath, 1994); The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death (with David Shields, 2011); The Selected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth; World Outside the Window: Selected Essays of Kenneth Rexroth; and The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth (with Sam Hamill). Morrow has also published several volumes of poetry, including Posthumes and A Bestiary (illustrated by 18 artists such as Vija Celmins, Richard Tuttle, Eric Fischl, Kiki Smith, Joel Shapiro), as well as a children’s book, Didn’t Didn’t Do It, in collaboration with legendary cartoonist Gahan Wilson.
He divides his time between New York City and an old farmhouse in upstate New York. His personal interests include bird watching and collecting rare books.
www.bradfordmorrow.com
www.conjunctions.com
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Matthew MutterChair, Division of Literature and Languages
Associate Professor of Literature
Office: Aspinwall 304
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-389-8618
Matthew Mutter
Chair, Division of Literature and Languages
Associate Professor of Literature
Office: Aspinwall 304
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-389-8618
Matthew Mutter teaches American literature, culture, and intellectual history from the eighteenth century to the present. He has particular interests in philosophy and literature; religion, secularism, and modernity; international modernism; American cultural criticism; and the relation between the humanities and the social sciences. His first book, Restless Secularism: Modernism and the Religious Inheritance was published by Yale University Press in 2017. His essays and reviews have appeared in English Literary History, Twentieth Century Literature, Arizona Quarterly, Modernism/Modernity, Common Knowledge, The Hedgehog Review, and Marginalia. His current research ranges from the metaphysical imagination in J.M. Coetzee’s late fiction to the engagement of American novelists and poets with the burgeoning cultural authority of the social sciences in the twentieth century. This latter work will become a book-length study that ranges from T.S. Eliot’s criticism of explanatory paradigms in early anthropology to controversies among Black American writers in the later twentieth century about the novel as form of sociology. He has recently completed an essay on James Baldwin and Margaret Mead, which frames their book-length dialogue, A Rap on Race, as a struggle between poetic thinking and social-scientific discourse for moral authority. -
Melanie NicholsonProfessor of Spanish; Director, Spanish Studies
Office: Seymour 202
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7382
Melanie Nicholson
Professor of Spanish; Director, Spanish Studies
Office: Seymour 202
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7382
Melanie Nicholson is a Professor of Spanish at Bard College. She received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Evil, Madness, and the Occult in Argentine Poetry (2002) and Surrealism in Latin American Literature: Searching for Breton’s Ghost (2013). Her articles on Latin American poetry and prose have appeared in Latin American Literary Review, Crítica Hispánica, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Journal of European Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, and Comparative Literature Studies, among others. She has published translations in Yale Review, Puerto del Sol, and Translation Review. Prof. Nicholson is currently working on a book that explores the bestiary and the beast fable in Latin American literature. -
Joseph O'Neill
Joseph O'Neill
Irish literature; American literature; post-colonialism; post-nationalism; literary theory. -
Francine Prose
Francine Prose
FRANCINE PROSE is the author of twenty-one works of fiction including, most recently, the novel, Mister Monkey, and the New York Times bestselling novel Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932. Her novel A Changed Man won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife and Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellowship at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Francine Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A new novel, The Vixen, will be published in June 2021. -
Susan Fox RogersVisiting Associate Professor of Writing
Office: Shafer House 102
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-6822
Website: www.susanfoxrogers.com
Susan Fox Rogers
Visiting Associate Professor of Writing
Office: Shafer House 102
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-6822
Website: www.susanfoxrogers.com
Non-fiction, including the literature of the outdoors and the literature of the Hudson Valley. -
James RommJames H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics
Office: Aspinwall 307
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7283
James Romm
James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics
Office: Aspinwall 307
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7283
Greek and Latin language; Greek history and prose literature; the classical tradition, cartography and geography. -
Nathan Shockey
Nathan Shockey
Modern Japanese literature, intellectual history, and visual art; theory and history of media and technology; mass culture and political movements; urban space and critical geography; histories of reading, publishing, and the book. -
Karen SullivanIrma Brandeis Professor of Romance Literature and Culture
Office: Aspinwall 103
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7571
Karen Sullivan
Irma Brandeis Professor of Romance Literature and Culture
Office: Aspinwall 103
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7571
Comparative literature; medieval and Renaissance French, Provençal, Latin, Italian, and Byzantine literature; Old French, Old Provençal, and medieval Latin languages; medieval philosophy, theology, and history; medieval “human rights”; heresy and the Inquisition; torture; romance; Louisiana. -
Wakako Suzuki
Wakako Suzuki
Wakako Suzuki is an assistant professor of Japanese at Bard College, specializing in Meiji literature, translation, and childhood studies. She has published “On the Present Reception of Yokomitsu’s Work in North America—From the Perspective of Shanghai Discussed in the Classroom,” and “Youth,” both in Yokomichi Riichi Studies, and “Sacred or Profane? Representing War Orphans in the Post-war Occupation of Japan: Ishikawa Jun’s ‘The Jesus of the Ruins’” in Japan Studies Association Journal, vol. 16 (2018), and Review of Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Routledge, in GNCC Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 41, 2019. Her forthcoming article will published in the upcoming issue of East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (EAJPC7.1.). -
David Ungvary
David Ungvary
I am a literary historian of the late Roman world, ca. 200-800 CE, a period also known as Late Antiquity. My research is primarily focused on understanding how practices of reading and writing evolved in these centuries among Greek and Latin communities, especially in the contexts of the classical tradition, the rise of Christianity, and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. My current book project, The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Antique Gaul (under contract with Oxford), explores the transformation of classical Latin poetry into a spiritual practice and discourse of religious reform amid the turbulence of the fifth century.
Like many of the late ancient Romans I study--Augustine, Boethius, the Desert Fathers--I am interested in probing the relationship between literacy and literature, on the one hand, and identity, ethics, and selfhood on the other. I try to teach the literature of Late Antiquity in these terms, as a space where we may explore groundbreaking experiments in reshaping connections, material and ideological, between what one reads and who one is; between how one reads and how one lives. -
Marina van ZuylenProfessor of French and Comparative Literature
Office: Hopson 103
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7381
Marina van Zuylen
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Office: Hopson 103
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7381
Comparative literature, especially the French, German, and Russian literatures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; aesthetics; literature and medicine; literature and philosophy; literature and the arts; literature and psychoanalysis; the relationship between conversation, idleness, and the work ethic in the Franco-American imagination. -
Olga VoroninaAssociate Professor of Russian; Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program
Office: Fairbairn 303
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone:845-758-7391
Olga Voronina
Associate Professor of Russian; Director, Russian and Eurasian Studies Program
Office: Fairbairn 303
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone:845-758-7391
Olga Voronina is Associate Professor of Russian at Bard College. She teaches courses in Russian language, literature, and film; the art of Vladimir Nabokov; collective memory and trauma narratives. Voronina is the editor of The Brill Companion to Soviet Children’s Literature and Film (2019) and translator and editor, with Brian Boyd, of Vladimir Nabokov’s Letters to Véra (2015). An author of essays on Soviet cultural politics, children’s literature and education, and Nabokov’s poetics and metaphysics, she serves on the board of the Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation. -
Thomas WildAssociate Professor of German; Program Director, German Studies
Office: Aspinwall 300
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7363
Thomas Wild
Associate Professor of German; Program Director, German Studies
Office: Aspinwall 300
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 845-758-7363
Thomas Wild, Associate Professor of German Studies and Literature, works on modern European and German literature and culture. In his research as well as in his teaching he’s particularly interested in the intersections between literature and history, politics, and philosophy. A current focus of his work addresses the poetics and ethics of multilingualism. Thomas Wild has published an introductory book on Hannah Arendt’s life, work, and reception and a monograph on Hannah Arendt’s intellectual relationships with post-war writers. His most recent book on the distinguished poet Ilse Aichinger discusses a contemporary poetics of hospitality. Several editions of letters emerged from Thomas Wild’s ongoing intrigue for correspondences and intellectual networks, including prominent writers such as Uwe Johnson, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and Joachim Fest. Poetry is an interlocutor in most of his courses and in many of his publications, among the latter are a collection of poems by Thomas Brasch and translations of contemporary American poets. Thomas Wild serves as general editor on the distinguished international team preparing the first scholarly edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works, which appears in print and digitally, presenting all published and unpublished writings of this eminent thinker in the original English and in the original German – a project providing the foundation for future research on Hannah Arendt, digital humanities, and what it means to think in a plurality of languages. -
Daniel Williams
Daniel Williams
19th- and early 20th-century British literature, especially the novel; South and Southern African literature; history of science; environmental humanities and animal studies; literature and philosophy; law and literature; aesthetics and art criticism. -
Shuangting Xiong
Shuangting Xiong
Professor Xiong's areas of teaching interest and research include 20th-century Chinese literature and culture, Late Imperial Chinese literature, affect theory and aesthetics, Chinese cinema, and film and media studies. A particular interest is the relation between emotion and politics and the mediating role aesthetics plays in it. Her current book-length project examines the evolution of melodramatic narratives of family, kinship, and the Chinese revolution across different media in 20th-century China. Publications also include “The Legend of the Red Lantern,” The Lexicon of Global Melodrama (2022); and catalogue essays for the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art exhibition Graphic Ideology: Cultural Revolution Propaganda from China, December 2017. She is the recipient of several teaching, research, and dissertation honors from the University of Oregon.
BA, Renmin University, China; MA, PhD, University of Oregon. At Bard since 2022. -
In Memoriam Li-Hua Ying
(1956–2023)Associate Professor of Chinese
In Memoriam Li-Hua Ying
(1956–2023)Associate Professor of Chinese
Li-hua Ying, born in Sichuan in 1956 and raised in neighboring Yunnan, China, was a devoted and beloved teacher and scholar. She joined the faculty at Bard in 1990 and taught continuously until her recent illness. She mentored students, built the Chinese language program from the ground up, and made key contributions to the Asian Studies and Literature program. Before Li-hua’s appointment, a Chinese language program at Bard did not exist; her tireless dedication and pedagogical talent enabled a notoriously difficult language to be learned and mastered by undergraduates at Bard. To her colleagues she was the very “backbone of Asian Studies at Bard.” For her contributions, Li-hua Ying was awarded the Michèle Dominy Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2021.
Li-hua ensured that Bard students studying Chinese had the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in Chinese language and culture. She established and directed the Bard Summer Intensive Chinese Program in China. She personally led groups of students, every summer, for more than two decades, in a two-month immersion program at Qingdao University. And in addition to founding a new area of study, Li-hua made valuable contributions to the curriculum in the Arts and Gender Studies. She was instrumental in helping the Bard Conservatory of Music build its significant relationships with China.
Li-hua received her B.A. from Yunnan Normal University, China and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin. Among her publications are “Negotiating with the Past: The Art of Calligraphy in Post-Mao China,” “Vital Margins: Frontier Poetics and Landscape of Ethnic Identity,” and Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature. She also served for many years as the Executive Director of American Society of Shufa Calligraphy Education, promoting the teaching of Chinese Calligraphy in the U.S.
Li-hua will be remembered by her colleagues, students, and friends for her generosity of spirit, her kindness, and her optimism. These were central to her life and her teaching. Li-hua demonstrated an exceptional commitment to Bard as an institution as well as to her students. Bard’s thriving Chinese language and literature program is a living tribute to her devotion and leadership.
On behalf of the entire Bard community, I wish to extend my deepest condolences to her son Kyle Chao and her husband Charles Chao. We will be in touch with information regarding services as soon as we have details to share. I am sure many will wish to come together to celebrate a beloved colleague.
Li-hua Ying will be missed. The privilege to work alongside her and witness the command, calm, confidence, enthusiasm, and affection Li-hua exhibited in her work and life was, for me, a singular gift and honor.
Justus Rosenberg in Marseille in 1941. Photo courtesy Justus and Karin Rosenberg
In Memoriam
Justus Rosenberg, Professor Emeritus of Languages and Literature
(1921–2021)
(1921–2021)
Justus Rosenberg, Professor Emeritus of Languages & Literature and Visiting Professor of Literature, died at home in Annandale on October 30, 2021, having celebrated his 100th birthday on January 23, 2021. Justus was a hero of the French Resistance who escorted well-known émigré writers and intellectuals, among them Heinrich Mann Franz Werfel and many others, through the treacherous Pyrenees to safety in Spain. For his service later in the war in aid of the U.S. Army, Justus received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, and in 2017, the French ambassador to the United States decorated him as a Commandeur in the Légion d’Honneur, one of France’s highest distinctions. Justus arrived at Bard in 1962, where he taught European literature and many languages to generations of Bard students. In the spirit of the Jewish tradition in which he was raised, “May his memory be a blessing.” Read the Tribute from Professor Elizabeth Frank with Vikramaditya Ha Joshi ’18