Language and Thinking Faculty

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Kimberly Alidio

Kimberly Alidio (she/they) is the author of four books of poetry, including why letter ellipses, : once teeth bones coral : , a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and after projects the resound. Their most recent book, Teeter, won the Nightboat Poetry Prize, and will be published August 2023. She has a PhD in History from the University of Michigan and a MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona, They have led workshops on experimental docupoetics at Naropa’s Summer Writing Program and at Kundiman, and a workshop on writing with ambient sound and the field recording for The Poetry Project. In addition, she teaches prose, poetics, and history for Bard Prison Initiative, Bard Early College, and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. With their partner, the poet Stacy Szymaszek, they live on unceded Munsee-Mohican lands, otherwise known as New York’s Upper Hudson Valley.

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Alexis Almeida

Alexis Almeida grew up in Chicago. Her recent poems, prose, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in BOMB, Harp & Alter, The Poetry Project Newsletter, FENCE, mercury firs, and elsewhere. She is the author of I Have Never Been Able to Sing (Ugly Ducking Presse 2018), and the translator of several works, including Florencia Castellano's Propiedades vigiladas [Monitored Properties] (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016), Roberta Iannamico’s Tendal [Wreckage] (Toad Press, 2017), and Dalia Rosetti's Sueños y pesadillas [Dreams and Nightmares] (Les Figues, 2019). Her co-translation of Carlos Soto Román’s 11 (UDP) is forthcoming in 2023, and her translation of Fernanda Laguna’s Panuelo de mocos is forthcoming this year from Dolce Stil Criollo. She edited a selection of contemporary poetry from Argentina — It’s in the Future — which came out in 2018 with the Elephants. She was a Fulbright research fellow to Argentina, and has received residencies and awards from Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf, the Center for Books Arts, the Emily Harvey Foundation, Lighthouse Works, and the University of Colorado, where she did her MFA. In fall of 2022, she took part in the LMCC’s residency on Governors Island. She has lead workshops and reading groups at The New School, Ugly Duckling, and Wendy’s Subway. She teaches in the Language and Thinking Program at Bard, at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library, and at Columbia University’s School of Narrative Medicine. She lives in Brooklyn, where she runs 18 Owls Press.

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Ernest Bryant

Ernest A. Bryant III is a transdisciplinary artist and critic. His interests include drawing, printmaking, nature, new media, conflict, aesthetics, and value. As L.P.I. (the Last Physician of Images), Bryant is the founder and host of the online forum and discussion series “Criticism and Value,” a forum for sharing experimental essays about art, criticism, and hosting live public conversations between living and non-living national and international artists.   Bryant was an SEI research fellow and assistant professor in the Experimental Foundation Studies Division, and the Illustration department at RISD. He was an inaugural fellow and faculty for the Yale Prison Education Initiative, and taught for the BARD Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library. Bryant has served as a resident critic and teaching fellow at the Yale Norfolk School of Art, as a guest critic in Graphic Design at Pratt Institute, in Sculpture and Textiles at RISD, and in Painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Bryant was in residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Shangyuan Art Scene in Beijing, China. He has received fellowships for his work from the Jerome Foundation, the Bush Foundation, Yale University, and RISD.
 

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John Burns

John Burns is Associate Professor of Spanish Studies at Bard College. Originally from Maine, he has lived in Chile and Spain and recently spent a semester teaching in Japan. He is interested in literature and literary translation, with a specific focus on contemporary Latin American poetry. He has written about experimental writers from Chile and Mexico and the ways in which their work intersects with politics and history. He is excited to teach in L&T  again for many reasons, but perhaps most of all because he still remembers how important the texts that comprise the course were to him as a young man and how they continue to resonate with him many years later. 

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Abby Crain

Abby Crain (she/her) is a dance artist who works through words, the body, and images in an attempt to make sense of the world, trouble what is considered sensible, and offer ways of seeing and being otherwise.  She was a professor in the Mills Dance Department on Ohlone land (Oakland, California) from 2016-2022 and currently teaches interdisciplinary writing at Mills College at Northeastern University. Her performance, choreographic, and dance teaching work has been presented nationally and internationally; she co-organizes the Kathleen Hermesdorf FRESH Festival in San Francisco; and is the artistic director of the PORCH.Veranda program at Ponderosa Tanzland in Germany.

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Anna Dolan

Anna Dolan (M.F.A., playwriting, Yale University; M.F.A., directing, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) teaches Playwriting in the Creative Writing Program and the English Department at Central Connecticut State University. She also teaches in the Young Writers' Workshop at Fir Acres and Bard College at Simon's Rock. She is a playwright and has written (and had produced) over 30 plays. She has recently written a recitation/adaptation of Jim Thompson's "The Killer Inside Me" for Maloney Theater in New Britain Connecticut, and an adaptation of "Men in the Sun" for the Freedom Theater of Jenin in Palestine. She received a grant from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community to write and direct two plays for the Sokhes Theater of Pohnpei in Micronesia-FSM, where she taught at the College of Micronesia-FSM for two years.

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Florian Duijsens

Florian Duijsens works as a translator and editor, and teaches at Bard College Berlin. Recently, he has also taught in the Young Writers Workshop at Simon’s Rock and at the Free University in Amsterdam. The co-founder and co-host of the Dead Ladies Show event series and podcast, he is also the senior editor of BLAU International and has moderated discussions at the International Literature Festival Berlin, LCB, and elsewhere. Aside from translating (children’s) books, he edits and translates work for artists, museums, and galleries around the world, and his writing and translations have appeared in Aperture, the Guardian, Asymptote, Ursula, and other publications.

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Nicholas Dunn

I am the Klemens von Klemperer Fellow in the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. I am also Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Politics, and teach in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). I received my PhD from the Department of Philosophy at McGill University in 2020. The central topic of my research is the faculty of judgment: its nature as a mental activity and its practical potential. The primary thinkers I deal with in my work are Immanuel Kant and Hannah Arendt. My work on Kant concerns the philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics, while my work on Arendt concerns the reception of Kant in her political thought and its relevance for issues in contemporary politics, including pluralism, democracy, polarization, and disagreement.

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Ursula N. Embola

Originally from the Republic of Cameroon in West/Central Africa, Ursula N. Embola has been living in the United States since 1997. Ursula worked as a non-profit fundraiser for 17 years prior to becoming an academic. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Buea, a Master of Arts in Writing from Manhattanville College, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in English from Drew University. Ursula currently teaches English and Writing at Mercy College and Westchester Community College. Her research interests include the connections between West African and African American women writers of the 20th Century.

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Natalia Fedorova

Natalia Fedorova is a new media poet, a digital literature scholar and a 101.Mediapoetry Festival curator. In collaboration with a sonic artist Taras Mashtalir she founded a media poetry project Machine Libertine. Noor, a brain opera with her libretto was presented at ISEA, 2016. Her audio and video poems appeared in TextSound, Rattapallax, LIT magazine, and Ill-Tempered Rubyist, räume für notizen | rooms for notes as well as number of international festivals and biennales (ISEA 2016, ELO 2015, 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Manifesta 10, Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair, REVERSE, Moscow Book Festival, E-Poetry, LUMEN EX, Interrupt II, VideoBardo, Liberated Words, Tarp and others). Natalia holds a PhD in literary theory from Herzen State University (St-Petersburg). Natalia won a Fulbright scholarship to do her first year postdoctorate term at the Trope Tank at MIT, where she was working on translating e-lit, and SPIRE to develop Russian Electronic Literature Collection in a specialized knowledge base at the University of Bergen for her second year term. She is currently teaching creative writing with new media and text-based art in Smolny College (St-Petersburg State University – Bard College) and curating a Mediapoetry lab at the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre. Natalia is a member of editorial board of Translit an almanach for contemporary poetry.

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Xhosa Frazier 

Xhosa Frazier graduated from the Bard MAT program in 2010. He currently teaches English 101 through SUNY Ulster Community college at the Woodstock Day School, as well as middle school and high school ELA. He taught a course titled “Poetry and the Spoken Word”, and he also taught a course titled “Alice Walker's The Color Purple and the African American Vernacular” in the Bard Early College Summer Academy. He has been a mentor teacher for the Bard MAT program for the past six years, which focuses on the process of teaching aspiring teachers how to teach. This is his 6th year teaching in the Language & Thinking program. 
Along with his teaching, Xhosa also writes essays and poetry. His poems and essays have been published in Hunger magazine and Forward. His current research is focused on the poetry and critical essays of Louis Zukofsky, and more specifically, Xhosa is exploring the cultural and theoretical influence Zukofsky has had on the development of his own work as a poet. 

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Seth David Halvorson

Seth David Halvorson’s (B.A., Macalester College; M.A., Stanford University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University) interests include Political, Ethical, and Social Philosophy, Policy Analysis, Classical and Contemporary Theories of Democracy and Citizenship, and History of Technology. He currently is Professor of History, Philosophy, and Political Studies at BHSEC-Newark. Seth has been a lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Columbia University and has taught, directed programs, and held appointments in Philosophy and Argumentation at Stanford and the University of Iowa. While he taught undergraduates in Columbia's Core Curriculum, he pursued the practical side of his interest in technology and for four years was Project Manager for Digital Humanities Teaching and Scholarship. Halvorson has been repeatedly recognized for excellence in Undergraduate teaching and has presented at national and international conferences on diverse topics in Philosophy, Education, Ethics, History, and Politics. Prior to his graduate education, Seth spent 3 years at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. His recent work has focused on the use of ethico-ecological vocabularies in the Anthropocene. He is undertaking a book-length study of the civic, moral, and educative dimensions of speed in the spheres of American social life. In his spare time he paints and is learning how to play the banjo. Seth and his spouse Heather, a practicing Modern Psychoanalyst, live in Newark, NJ and are preparing for the birth of their daughter. 

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Kythe Heller

Kythe Heller is an award-winning poet, essayist, interdisciplinary artist, and scholar whose work spans text, film, music, performance, and multimedia social practice. Currently, she is completing a ThD doctorate at Harvard University under the Committee on the Study of Religion, in Comparative Religion, Religious Thought (Philosophy and Theology), and Literary Studies and the Arts, with a PhD secondary field in Literary Arts, Film, and Visual Studies/Critical Media Practice. Her dissertation, titled Sublime Frequencies: Mysticism, Sound, and the Poetics of Unsaying, develops a socially-engaged metaphysics of sound through comparative case studies of contemporary mystics, poets, and artists from diverse traditions whose work responds to pressing contemporary concerns. She holds an MDiv from Harvard Divinity School, an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and a BA in English Literature from Reed College.
Recently published work includes a collection of poems, Firebird (Arrowsmith), nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award, an edited collection of translations and essays about translation, The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra (Stenen Press, with Carolina Gómez-Montoya), a text and image artist book, Thunder Perfect Mind, with photographer Meka Tome (Forecast), and several critical studies on medieval and contemporary mysticism and spirituality, phenomenology of the senses, aesthetics, and the arts, including “An Ethnography of Spirituality” in Arvo Pårt’s White Light: Media, Culture, Politics (Cambridge University Press), “Living Backwards” in Quo Anima: Innovation and Spirituality in Contemporary Poetry (Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics), and “The Heart Receptive of Every Form: Representations of Fire in the unio mystica of Mahomet” (Harvard Divinity School Graduate Journal). Her writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, The Southern Review, among other publications. She has received fellowships and grant awards from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, to support a writing fellowship at The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Mellon Foundation, Harvard University, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Film, performance, and installation work has been screened and exhibited across the United States and Canada.
She is also the founder and creative director of Vision Lab, a global art and research collective in the future of the human spirit, based at Harvard Divinity School and creating work to address contemporary spirituality, social and environmental justice, and technology. She edits the international art and culture journal Forecast, and is a poet on the faculty of Bard College's Language and Thinking Program. www.kytheheller.com

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Sanjay Kumar

Sanjay Kumar hails from Kerala, India and has a  Masters in English Language, Linguistics and Literature from the Centre for Linguistics and English(CLE), School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures(SLL&CS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. Sanjaydid his PhD in Contemporary Indian Urban Theatre from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. He has more than two decades of international teaching experience at the university level in Writing, Rhetoric and Composition Studies, English Literature, and Intellectual Histories of South Asia across South and Far East Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and U.S.  Sanjay is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Academic Writing, Central European University (CEU), Vienna. Apart from teaching academic, policy and narrative writing related courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral level in social sciences and humanities at different departments including Gender Studies, public policy  and Nationalism Studies at CEU since 2010, he is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan since 2015. He is also a member of the first global cohort of the OSUN-IWT CLASP Fellows program (2021-2023). Sanjay was the Director of Studies of Open Society Foundation (OSF)'s pre-academic summer program for the Civil Society Leadership Awardees, and an international Writing Coach and Consultant for OSF in Budapest. Sanjay has published in national and international academic and popular publications on Indian theatre, cinema, performances. He also pioneered story-telling workshops with refugee students in Budapest. He has also curated for the Bard Fischer Centre for Human Rights and the Arts. He is a co-leader of the OSUN Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network project comprising 11 institutions from across the globe. He is currently working on developing writing pedagogies in the age of AI and teaching writing in the Global South. Sanjay has published theatre reviews, feature articles in India’s national newspapers like The Hindu and published in academic journals about Indian theatre, ritualistic performances and the city. He is also a faculty in the OSUN Network Collaborative Course on Digital Theatres involving institutions from three continents and six countries. He also is host on the Scholarly Communication Channel of the New Books Network (NBN) Podcast, one of the leading global podcast series on academic books.

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Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss

Amy Loewenhaar-Blauweiss (B.A., New School for Social Research; M.A., Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research; Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Training and Research Institute for Self-Psychology; Psy.D. (Critical Theory/Psychology), Wright Institute/Professional School of Psychology, 2012; Fellow in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, The Karen Horney Clinic/American Institute of Psychoanalysis; Practitioner Certification Mentalization-Based Treatment, Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute, McClean Hospital/Harvard Medical School; founding director, Terezin Publishing Project; editor/publisher, English-Language edition of H. G. Adler's "Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community" (Cambridge University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Terezin Publishing Project, 2018, National Book Award nominee, National Jewish Book Award finalist). Articles have appeared in such publications as The Journal of the International Political Science Association, International Journal of Political Psychology and Political Socialization, The New York Times, The Prague Post, and TIKKUN Magazine. Author of forthcoming "Songs in the Wilderness: Music in the Holocaust and the Betrayal of 'Bildung'" (Syracuse U. Press/Traditions in Jewish Art, Culture and Music). Former Board Member, Partners for Progressive Israel (MeretzUSA). International Society for Political Psychology; International Psychohistorical Association. Recipient of grants from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, among others. Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College, concert/lecture series, "Music in the Holocaust, Jewish Identity and Cosmopolitanism." Language and Thinking faculty since 2011; Citizen Science faculty; Bard Prison Initiative faculty.

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Andrew McCarron

Andrew McCarron (B.A., Bard; M.T.S., Harvard University; M.Phil, Ph.D, Graduate Center of The City University of New York) currently chairs the Religion, Philosophy, & Ethics Department at Trinity School in Manhattan, and also teaches in the English Department. He has published a collection of poetry called Mysterium (Edgewise Press, 2011), and two book-length psychological studies of artists’ lives: Three New York Poets: Charles North, Tony Towle, and Paul Violi (Station Hill Press, 2015), and Dylan on Dylan: the transfigurations of an American troubadour (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2015).  

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Dale Mineshima-Lowe

Dr. Dale Mineshima-Lowe received her Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Durham in the UK. She also holds a M.A. in European Political & Economic Integration, a Diploma in Legal Studies (both from the University of Durham, UK), a BSc in Psychology with a minor in Political Science (Santa Clara University, CA, USA), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Adult/Further Education (University of Westminster, UK). She is currently an Associate Lecturer in both the Department of Politics and Department of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Visiting Faculty member at Parami University, Myanmar.

Dale’s research interests focus on democratic transitions and governance issues and her current research examines the developing area of data activism – in particular, of how civic organizations are using digital technologies to combat corruption with citizen engagement; as well as teaching & learning pedagogies and practices.  Dale is also the Managing Editor for the Center of International Relations - a think tank based in Washington, D.C., is an OSUN-CLASP Fellow (2021- 2023), and a receipient of the American Political Science Association's Michael Britnall Teaching Award, 2023, and of the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Birkbeck, University of London, 2022.

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Andrew Mossin

Andrew Mossin is a poet, memoirist and scholar of contemporary experimental U.S. poetries.  He has published eight full length collections of poetry, including most recently Black Trees (Spuyten Duyvil Press 2023); a memoir, A Son from the Mountains, a section of which appeared in Conjunctions, that deals with his adoption from Greece and subsequent childhood in Washington, D.C.,; and a collection of critical essays, Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in "New American" Poetry (Palgrave 2010).  Mossin's poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, reviews and critical essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Hambone, Jacket2, Iowa Review, Contemporary Literature, Golden Handcuffs Review, Talisman and many others.  He is currently editing Thinking with the Poem, a collection of essays on the poet, Rachel Blau DuPlessis (under contract with the University of New Mexico Press), and a new book of poetry, From the Other Side: Daybooks June 30-December 12, 2022. He is an Associate Professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University in Philadelphia and lives in Doylestown, PA.

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz is a Visiting Instructor in the Humanities at Bard College, teaching Language and Thinking (L&T) and First Year Seminar (FYSEM). Antonio graduated from Bard College in 2018 with a BA in Economics, specializing in macroeconomic policy and the economic history of Latin America. After graduating from Bard, he attended Yale Divinity School where he earned his Master of Divinity degree in 2023. During his time at Yale, Antonio's research focused on the Hebrew Bible; in particular, how biblical narratives of violence were used to construct communal identity in ancient Israel, and surrounding ancient West Asian cultures. In addition to his teaching role, Antonio is also a Program Associate in the Office of the Dean of the College, working directly with the Associate Vice President for Academic Initiatives and Associate Dean of the College, Nicholas Alton Lewis, on building a climate of inclusion and community at Bard College. Outside of academia, Antonio is a practicing Buddhist, and an avid soccer fan.

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Jillian Peña

Jillian Peña is a Latinx dance and video artist whose work seeks to make visible the confusion and desire between self and other.  Her work is in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, pop media, and spirituality. Jillian received a 2016 Bessie Award nomination for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer in New York and was awarded the 2014 Prix Jardin d'Europe, the European Prize for Outstanding Emerging Choreography at ImpulsTanz Dance Festival in Vienna.  Her videos have screened in over 13 countries, and her live performance has been presented internationally, including at Danspace Project, The Chocolate Factory, 92nd St Y, Dance Theater Workshop and The Kitchen in New York, and at ImPulsTanz Vienna, Modern Art Oxford, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Sophiensaele Berlin, and the International Festival of Contemporary Art Slovenia. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, PS122, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Movement Research, the National Dance Center of Bucharest, and Archauz Denmark. Jillian has created work for American Ballet Theater, American Dance Festival's Footprints Program, and the University of the Arts. She was a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholar during which she was awarded an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was a fellowship recipient, and a Practice-based MPhil at Goldsmiths University.

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Andrea Quaid

Andrea Quaid (she/her) is a writer, editor and teacher. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz (Literature PhD). Her work focuses on poetry and poetics, pedagogy, and feminist studies. She is co-editor of Acts + Encounters, a collection about experimental writing and community, and Urgent Possibilities, Writings on Feminist Poetics and Emergent Pedagogies. She is also co-editor and contributor to a collection called Migrating Pedagogies (eohippus labs). Her work appears in albeit, American Book Review, BOMBlog, Entropy, Feminist Spaces Journal, Full Stop, Jacket2, Lana Turner, LIT, Los Angeles Review of Books, Manifold and Syllabus. With Harold Abramowitz, she curates RAD! Residencies at the Poetic Research Bureau. She teaches in the Bard College Language & Thinking Program and Institute for Writing and Thinking. She also teaches in the Critical Studies Department at California Institute of the Arts. She co-founded and directs Humanities in the City, a Los Angeles education nonprofit that hosts public programs committed to education equity and the transformational power of interdisciplinary humanities study in classrooms and communities.

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Lubomir Terziev

Lubomir Terziev holds an MA degree in English from Veliko Tarnovo University (Bulgaria)
and a PhD from Sofia University (Bulgaria). He taught British Literature of the Eighteenth
Century and Romanticism, and Creative Writing at Sofia University’s Department of English
and American Studies for twenty years. Since 2016, he has been a full-time professor of
Writing and Literature at the American University in Bulgaria.
His research is focused on the correlation between politics and aesthetics in Romantic
literature as well as on issues concerning literary education. His PhD dissertation was devoted
to the figure of the poet as educator in S.T. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria. He is currently
working on a monograph entitled Subject and Event in William Blake’s Poetry.
Terziev has published three poetry books in Bulgarian.

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Robin Tremblay-McGaw

Robin Tremblay-McGaw lives in San Francisco and teaches at Santa Clara University and in Bard’s Language & Thinking Program.  She is the co-editor with Rob Halpern of From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice (ON Contemporary Practice, 2017). Her book of poems, Dear Reader (Ithuriel's Spear), came out in August 2015. Some recent published work and talks include: “A Short Talk on a Long Topic:Whiteness in Poetry, Art, and Film: A Talk on a Poem in-Progress: BenjaminMoore’s White” (SCU Center for Arts and Humanities, May 2020); Poetry, Podcasts and Pop Culture: Emily Dickinson: Race, Class and Queer Love;  “A Made Up Thing” Full of Depth: The Queer Belonging of Robert Duncan and New Narrative, in Sillages critiques, December 2020; “Archive” a poem in Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, a special issue: Writing in the Pause, October 2020;  a poem/essay “the queen’s english ain’t her own” in Queenzenglish.mp3: poetry/philosophy/performativity, edited by Kyoo Lee, Roof Books, 2020; “A Real Fictional Depth”: Transtexuality & Transformation  in Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe in Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics. Medieval Institute Publications ( 2022); an article “Sounding Out: Nathaniel Mackey’s Ontological Archive in Fugitive Run”  in the Journal of Narrative Theory Winter 2022. B.A., English, the University of New Hampshire; M.A. English, San Francisco State University; M.L.I.S. University of California, Berkeley; PhD. Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Rosalie Uyola

Haitian, born in Moscow, Dr. Rosie Jayde Uyola emigrated to the U.S. in 1991 and attended Rutgers University at age 16, embodying Bard’s belief that many young people are ready and eager to do serious college work during high school. In addition to having 20 years of high school teaching experience, Rosie simultaneously taught undergraduate students at Rutgers University and graduate students at Fordham University over the past decade. They hold a B.A. in Economics, M.Ed. in Educational Technology (concentration: Computer Science), M.A. in American Studies, and a Ph.D. in American Studies. Rosie’s publications include “Memory and the Long Civil Rights Movement,” in The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest: New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America (University of Florida Press, 2018), “The Digital City: Memory, History, and Public Commemoration,” Ácoma International Journal of North-American Studies, Italia (2015), “Home Sweet Home - Race, Housing, and the Foreclosure Crisis,” in The War on Poverty: A Retrospective (Lexington Books, 2014), “Race, Empire, and the Rise of the Mortgage Industrial Complex,” The Newark Experience Digital Archive (Rutgers University Libraries, 2013), and “Women in the Black Freedom Movement,” School Series Production of Harriet Tubman, New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC, 2008). 
Rosie has been appointed as a founding faculty member at Bard-Bronx, following interdisciplinary teaching at Bard-Newark (World History, College Financial Literacy, Bard Seminar, LGBTQIAA++ in the African Diaspora, and Introduction to Indigenous Studies). They are the president of the New York Metro chapter of the American Studies Association (NYMASA) and an NEH fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem this summer. Dr. Uyola’s expertise and research interests include memory, commemoration, public art, and oral history. They find joy in filmmaking, cooking, travel, theatre, and playing music.  

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Mary Grace Williams

The Rev. Mary Grace Williams, Chaplain of the College and Dean of Community Life, came to Bard in 2016 and has taught FYSEM every semester since the 2018 spring semester as well as other courses in religion and the Bible. She received her B.A. from Rutgers University where she studied theater arts, which led her to move to New York City directly after college to pursue a career in theater. While living in the West Village, she rediscovered her deep interest in spirituality and religion and that inspired her to do a M.A. in religious education from Fordham University. Eventually this led her to seek ordination as an Episcopal priest, and she attended Yale Divinity School, where she earned a M.Div. Mary Grace has two daughters: Grace, who is currently in medical school in NYC, and Kate who graduated from Bard in 2020 as a double major in human rights and dance and who now lives in Brooklyn performing and designing and creating clothing. Mary Grace lives in Rhinebeck and has three Cavalier King Charles dogs (Harry, George, and Charles).

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Sarah Wheeler

Sarah Wheeler has been a teacher for 25 years and is currently English Department Chair at Rhinebeck High School in Rhinebeck, NY.  She studied French and Italian literature at Columbia College, Columbia University, receiving a BA magna cum laude.  She holds an MS in Education from The George Washington University with a specialization in English as a New Language, as well as an MA in English from SUNY New Paltz.  Sarah taught high school English in Annandale, VA, Norfolk, VA, and Bensonhurst, NY, before moving to the Hudson River Valley.  She also served as adjunct faculty in writing programs at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, NJ, SUNY New Paltz, and Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, NY, where she gained experience supporting students in the transition from high school to college.  Sarah advises both the student newspaper Rhinebeck Reality and literary magazine Murmur, and she coaches students in RHS’s annual Poetry Out Loud competitions.  Her writing has been published in TESOL’s What Works, The Shawangunk Review, NCTE’s College Composition and Communication, and Living Rhinebeck, but her true passion is the performance art created in classroom collaboration with young minds and big ideas.

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Mike Wood

Mike Wood M.A. English, King’s College London, M.A.T. (Literature), Bard College.
Mike has taught in private and public schools in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Prior to this role he was an Associate Director of Admission in Bard College’s Office of Admission. In addition to serving as the Dean of Students, Mike also teaches a section of the program’s College Experience class, guiding students as they navigate the college application process. Outside of work, Mike’s interests include drumming, piano and beekeeping. He is married with two daughters.

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Joseph Yearous-Algozin

Joey Yearous-Algozin is a poet, publisher and teacher. He is the author of A Feeling Called Heaven, Utopia, and the multi-volume The Lazarus Project, among others. With Holly Melgard, he co-authored the trilogy of books: Liquidation, White Trash, and Holly Melgard’s Friends and Family. He is a founding member of the publishing collective, Troll Thread. With an MA in Creative Writing from Temple University and a PhD in English from the University at Buffalo, he teaches in NYU’s Liberal Studies Program and is a writing consultant at Baruch College. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.