71 faculty and 3 courses in English at Bard College.
- Oleg Minin h-index 33
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
- Thomas Keenan h-index 33
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
- 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
- Thomas Wild h-index 18
- 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
- Jaime Osterman Alves h-index 13
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
- Alys Moody h-index 11
- Daniel Williams h-index 9
- 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
- Jonathan Brent h-index 4
- Dina Ramadan h-index 4
- Olga Voronina h-index 4
- Patricia López-Gay h-index 3
- Franco Baldasso h-index 2
- Marisa Libbon h-index 2
- 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
- Jana Schmidt h-index 2
- David Ungvary h-index 1
- Ziad Dallal h-index 1
- Adhaar Noor Desai
- Alex Benson
- Ann Lauterbach
- Benjamin Hale
- Chiara Pavone
- Daniel Mendelsohn
- 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
- 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
- Francine Prose
- 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
- 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
- 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 Luzzi
- Joseph O'Neill
- Karen Raizen
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
- Luisanna Sardu
- Luwei Wang
- M. Gessen
- Maria Sachiko Cecire
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
- 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
- Philip Pardi
- Rebecca Swanberg
- Éric Trudel
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
- Robert Cioffi
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
- 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
- Valeria Luiselli
- Wyatt Mason
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 2026-07-01.