71 faculty and 3 courses in English at Bard College.
- Elizabeth M. Holt h-index 24
Carbon, soft power, cold war, solar, periodicals, poetry, novel, theater, film, form, translation, Arabic, comparative literature; Palestine Highlights: 2017 — Publication Fictitious Capital: Silk, Cotton, and the Rise of the Arabic
- Karen Sullivan h-index 13
Medieval Studies About Karen Sullivan Professor Sullivan is the author of Introducing the Medieval Bear (University of Wales Press, 2026), Eleanor of Aquitaine, As It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Quee
- Alys Moody h-index 11
Notable: “Bunting: The Shaping of His Verse” (1994) · 35 citations
- Francine Prose h-index 7
Notable: “A Scrap of Time and Other Stories” (1988) · 20 citations
- Joseph Luzzi h-index 6
Notable: “Letter on Romanticism” (2004) · 29 citations
- Lauren Curtis h-index 5
Greek and Latin poetry; ancient performance and musical culture, especially the history of the Greek chorus; ancient book culture, antiquarianism, and cultural memory; gender and sexuality in the Greco-Roman world
Notable: “Becoming the Lyre: Arion and Roman Elegy” (2017) · 34 citations
- Robert Cioffi h-index 4
Greek literature, travel and ethnography in the ancient world, the history of the novel, Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Egyptian cultural interactions, and papyrology. He teaches Greek and Latin at all levels, as well as course
Notable: “Seeing Gods: Epiphany and Narrative in the Greek Novels” (2014) · 50 citations
- Jonathan Brent h-index 4
Notable: “A John Cage Reader: In Celebration of His 70th Birthday” (1986) · 23 citations
- Maria Sachiko Cecire h-index 4
Children's literature and childhood, speculative fiction, digital culture, media studies, medievalisms About Maria Sachiko Cecire Professor Cecire is the founding director of the Center for Experimental Humanities, which focuses on ho
Notable: “Medievalism, Popular Culture and National Identity in Children's Fantasy Literature” (2009) · 10 citations
- Olga Voronina h-index 4
Notable: ““The Sun of World Poetry”: Pushkin as a Cold War Writer” (2011) · 36 citations
- Éric Trudel h-index 3
20th- and 21st-Century French Literature About Éric Trudel Professor Trudel is the author of La Terreur à l’œuvre: théorie, poétique et éthique chez Jean Paulhan (Paris, Presses Univ
Notable: “Participatory co-creation of an adapted physical activity program for adults with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury” (2022) · 7 citations
- Marisa Libbon h-index 2
Notable: “The Invention of King Richard” (2016) · 4 citations
- Nathan Shockey h-index 2
Book history and histories of reading, the economics of literary production, the politics of publishing, language reform and linguistic thought, and the aesthetics of energy infrastructure. BA, Stanford University; MA, Waseda Univer
Notable: “Reorganizations of Gender and Nationalism: Gender Bashing and Loliconized Japanese Society” (2010) · 18 citations
- Adhaar Noor Desai h-index 2
Notable: “George Gascoigne’s “Patched Cote”: Writing Pedagogy and Poetic Style in the Literature Classroom” (2021) · 10 citations
- Ann Lauterbach h-index 1
Notable: “On Flaws : Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment” (1999) · 16 citations
- David Ungvary h-index 1
Notable: “The voice of the dead king Chindasuinth: poetry, politics, and the discourse of penance in Visigothic Spain” (2018) · 15 citations
- Karen Raizen h-index 1
Es on operatic adaptations of Italian classics, particularly in the 17th and 18th centuries. She is the coeditor of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed: A Thinker for the 21st Century (Bloomsbury, 2018) and has published articles, essa
Notable: “Introduction” (2019) · 2 citations
- Alex Benson
- Benjamin Hale
- Chiara Pavone
- Daniel Mendelsohn
- Daniel Williams
- Dawn Lundy Martin
- Deirdre d'Albertis, Dean of the College
19th- and 20th-century British literature, Victorian studies, history of the novel, narrative fiction, narrative theory, feminist theory About Deirdre d'Albertis B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Author, Dissembl
- Derek Lance Furr
Romanticism and its legacies; sound recording; folk music and poetics; postcolonial Anglophone literature; reading disabilities; secondary school English Language Arts curriculum and instruction; writing fiction and essays. Has been
- Diane Barkstrom
- Dina Ramadan
- Dinaw Mengestu
- Donna Ford Grover, Associate Research Professor
- Elizabeth Frank
American literature, Jewish literature, poetry About Elizabeth Frank B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Fellowships: Ford Foundation (1967–72); Temple University (1977); The Newberry Library (1977); American
- Franco Baldasso
- Gabriella Lindsay
19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century French and Francophone studies; Francophone postcolonial studies; aesthetics; race, gender, and sexuality; and autobiography and autofiction. She is the recipient of a Georges Lurcy Fellowship and nu
- Hua Hsu
- Huiwen Li
On Chinese language and culture, pedagogy, and teacher competency, with particular emphasis on character etymology, oracle bone inscriptions, and calligraphy. He has published extensively in both books and scholarly journals. At Bard, he te
- Ian Buruma
- Ingrid Becker
- Jaime Osterman Alves
In 19th-century American literature and culture; areas of interest include literary representations of schoolgirls and female education; domesticity and gender studies; science, medicine and disability studies; newspapers/periodicals and
- James Romm
History, esp. Herodotus, Alexander the Great About James Romm B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Princeton University. Taught at Fordham University, Cornell University. Fellowships and awards: junior fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies; Gu
- Jana Schmidt
- Jasmine Akiyama-Kim
Es on historical and literary texts of the Roman principate, with a particular interest in issues of mimesis, genealogy, and time. Her first book project, provisionally entitled Simulacra of Nero: Imposture, Succession, and Recognitio
- Jen Zoble
- Jenny Offill
- Jenny Xie
- John Burns
- Joseph O'Neill
- Luisanna Sardu
- Luwei Wang
- M. Gessen
- Marina van Zuylen
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French, Russian, German comparative literature About Marina van Zuylen Marina van Zuylen is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Bard College. She was educated in France before receiving
- Mark Danner
- Mary Caponegro
- Matthew Mutter
- Michael Ives
- Mona Simpson
- Nicole Caso
Latin American Literature About 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
- Nuruddin Farah
- Odile S. Chilton
- Oleg Minin
The literature, visual, and performing arts of the Russian Silver Age and Russian avant-garde; the satirical press of the Russian fin de siècle; Habermas’s social theory and Bourdieu’s theory of cultural production; and language ped
- Patricia López-Gay
- Philip Pardi
- Rebecca Swanberg
- Shuangting Xiong
- Soonyoung Lee
- Stephanie Kufner
- Stephen Graham
Victorian novels; George Eliot; Victorian poetry. About Stephen Graham B.A., Harvard College; M.A., M.F.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Areas of interest include fiction, poetry, and prose of the Victorian period. Adjunct pro
- Susan Fox Rogers
Nonfiction writing About Susan Fox Rogers Susan Fox Rogers is a birder, rock climber, kayaker, teacher, and writer who has authored and/or edited numerous works focused on the natural world and outdoor adventure. Her books include Whe
- Thomas Keenan
Literature, media, human rights, political theory About Thomas Keenan B.A., Amherst College; M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Author, Fables of Responsibility (1997); Mengele's Skull (with Eyal Weizman, 2012); articles in PMLA, S
- Thomas Wild
- Valeria Luiselli
- Wyatt Mason
- Ziad Dallal
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.