Language and Thinking draws faculty from Bard College and from institutions throughout the United States and abroad. Our instructors include scholars and artists from a wide range of fields who are trained in the program’s innovative approach to interdisciplinary inquiry.
2023 Faculty
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Kimberly Alidio
Kimberly Alidio
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Alexis Almeida
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. -
Ernest Bryant
Ernest Bryant
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John Burns
John Burns
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Abby Crain
Abby Crain
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Anna Dolan
Anna Dolan
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Florian Duijsens
Florian Duijsens
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Xhosa Frazier
Xhosa Frazier
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. -
Seth David Halvorson
Seth David Halvorson
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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 -
Andrew McCarron
Andrew McCarron
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Antonio Ortiz
Antonio Ortiz
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Jillian Peña
Jillian Peña
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Robin Tremblay-McGaw
Robin Tremblay-McGaw
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Mary Grace Williams
Mary Grace Williams
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Sarah Wheeler
Sarah Wheeler
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Mike Wood
Mike Wood
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. -
Joseph Yearous-Algozin
Joseph Yearous-Algozin
Past L&T Faculty
Following is a list of faculty who have taught within the past decade.
- Abendroth, Emily
- Aberth, Susan
- Adarkar, Aditya
- Albertini, Dorothy
- Allen, Duff
- Allen, Rashaun
- Bartscherer, Thomas
- Behrens, Susan
- Bertrand-Dewsnap, Anne
- Bland, Celia
- Blaney, Paul
- Blazen, Sladja
- Bot, Michiel
- Brown, Michael
- Buuck, David
- Callaghan, Megan
- Cannizzaro, Nina
- Caso, Nicole
- Casey, Tim
- Cavell, Rachel
- Chace, Rebecca
- Chakrapani, Rajnesh
- Champlin, Jeffrey
- Chang, Mary
- Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha
- Chaves, Maria
- Cherneski, JanaLee
- Chow, Juliana
- Chugani, Indu
- Cioffi, Frank
- Civil, Gabrielle
- Cocola, Jim
- Conn, Brian
- Cope, Stephen
- Dahlberg, Laurie
- D’Albertis, Deidre
- Dapena, Gerard
- DeSoto, Aureliano
- DeWitt Ann
- Dixon, William
- Doerries, Bryan
- Dolan, Anna
- Donovan, Thom
- Dorsey, Brigid
- Duijsens, Florian
- Dworkin, Ira
- Edmonds, Brittney
- Embola, Ursula
- Ephraim, Laura
- Eyl, Jennifer
- Folkman, Marjorie
- Foster, Tonya
- Frazier, Xhosa
- Freely, April
- Friedman, Sandie
- Gaddis, Kelly
- Gal, Christian
- George, Madeleine
- Gómez Montoya, Carolina
- Gotman, Kelina
- Gould-Martin, Katherine
- Gover, Karen
- Granato, Rebecca
- Grover, Donna Ford
- Gurton-Wachter, Lily
- Gutkin, Len
- Halpern, Robert
- Halter, Ed
- Halvorson, Seth David
- Hansen, Natalie
- Hasan, Rafeeq
- Heiti, Warren
- Heller, Kythe
- Heupel, Katherine
- Hindley, Jane
- Hoffman, Michelle
- Hopkins, Stephanie
- Hunt, Grace
- Ives, Michael
- Jacques, Geoffrey
- Kaplan, Hilary
- Kaufman, Erica
- Kaza, Madhu
- Keller, Jim
- Kirschner, Susan
- Kolb, Anjuli Raza
- Kondrich, Christopher
- Krapp, Peter
- Kravetz, Rachel
- Larson, Kay
- Lattig, Sharon
- Lepri, Karen
- Leonard, Nancy
- Liebert, Rana Saadi
- Lipson, Mimi
- Liu, David
- Loewenhaar-Blauweiss, Amy
- Longabucco, Matt
- Luka, Barbara
- Marshall, Sharon
- Martin, Dawn Lundy
- Martin, William
- McCarron, Andrew
- Mellis, Delia
- Mellis, Miranda
- Mendes, Gabriel
- Merriam, Susan
- Miller, Christopher
- Miller, Jesse
- Moore, Carley
- Morris, Theresa
- Mossin, Andrew
- Moynahan, Gregory
- Murray, Michael
- Needham, Andrew
- Nicholson, Melanie
- Nusseibeh, Lucy
- Osborne, Gillian
- Pardi, Philip
- Parker, Ben
- Peña, Jillian
- Peoples, Peg
- Pérez, Christopher
- Perrillo, Jonna
- Perta, Litia
- Pierce, Michelle
- Piore, Nancy
- Pollack, Maika
- Prevallet, Kristen
- Quaid, Andrea
- Regan, Marie
- Rivera, Elena
- Rodriguez, Karen
- Romani, Sahar
- Roncea, Anca
- Roy-Bhattacharya, Joydeep
- Sahedo, Emily
- Sanborn, Geoffrey
- Sandstrom, Gregory
- Santangelo, Lauren
- Schmidt, Christopher
- Schmidt, Tyler
- Schwartz, Brian
- Sengul, Ali Faut
- Shocket, Marta
- Sigismondi, Paul
- Silvers, Lauren
- Sipe, Michelle
- Skinner, Jonathan
- Sprague, Jane
- Statman, James
- Stecopoulos, Eleni
- Steinhoff, Eirik
- Stephens, Paul
- Stevens, Benjamin
- Storey, Ian
- Szekely, Rachel
- Tanaka, Aya
- Taylor, Catherine
- Taylor, Dominic
- Thomson, Dave
- Tivey, Hap
- Trachtenberg, Peter
- Tremblay-McGaw, Robin
- Truitt, Sam
- Tynes, Robert
- Vartorella, Rick
- Vitale, Ana
- Wachter-Grene, Kirin
- Wagner, Jean
- Wall, Christopher
- Wallace, Peter
- Watson, Bruce
- Watson, Cecelia
- Webb, Bill
- Weckwerth, Wendy
- van der Weijden, Renata
- White, Simone
- Wolach, David
- Wolfe, Katherine
- Wyman, Annie
- Zuckerman, Ian