List of Bard College people

Here is a list of people associated with Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. It includes graduates, attendees, and faculty of the college.

Alumni

Arts

Dance

• Arthur Aviles, dancer and choreographer

Film, Television and Theatre

• Ashim Ahluwalia, filmmaker
• Anne Bogart, theater director
• Jordan Bridges, actor
• Bora Tekay, film director
• Salvador Carrasco, film director (The Other Conquest)
• Gia Coppola, film director
• Chevy Chase, comedian, writer, and television and film actor
• Chris Claremont, writer (X-Men)
• Blythe Danner, actress
• Theodore J. Flicker, sculptor/film director
• Lola Glaudini, actor (The Sopranos)
• Wynne Greenwood
• Adrian Grenier, actor (Entourage)
• Christopher Guest, actor/director (This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show)
• Larry Hagman, actor
• K8 Hardy
• Todd Haynes, filmmaker
• Jonah Hill, actor, screenwriter
• Peter Hobbs, actor
• Gaby Hoffmann, actor
• Howard Koch, screenwriter (Casablanca, Letter from an Unknown Woman)
• Rhoda Levine, choreographer, theatre and opera director (NYC Opera) Play it By Ear, children's book writer
• Olde English, sketch comedy group
• Ellen Parker, actress, the Guiding Light
• Jeff Preiss, filmmaker
• Rosalie Purvis, theater director
• Eric Schaeffer, writer, director, actor
• Peter Stone, playwright
• Michael Tolkin, filmmaker, novelist
• Alexandra Wentworth, actor/comedian
• Sherman Yellen, screenwriter/playwright/lyricist; political essayist on Huffington Post and The Environmentalist

Music

• Walter Becker, musician and co-founder of Steely Dan
• Ran Blake, pianist
• Carl Davis, composer and conductor
• Drop the Lime, electronic dance musician
• Donald Fagen, musician and co-founder of Steely Dan
• Chris Glover, musician, producer and remixer of Penguin Prison fame
• Jeanne Lee, jazz singer, poet and composer.
• Jack Lewis, musician (known as "Lesser Lewis")
• Gilda Lyons, composer, vocalist, visual artist
• Zeena Parkins, avant-garde harpist
• Elliott Sharp, musician
• Richard M. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter
• Robert B. Sherman, songwriter and screenwriter
• Jonathan Tunick, composer and arranger
• Stefan Weisman, composer
• Nick Zinner, musician (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Head Wound City)

Visual Arts

• Sadie Benning, video artist
• Nayland Blake, artist
• Paul Chan (artist)
• Ronald Chase, artist, director & educator
• Joanne Greenbaum, painter
• David Horvitz, artist
• Jamie Livingston, photographer/cinematographer
• Malerie Marder, photographer
• Serkan Ozkaya, artist
• R.H. Quaytman, artist
• Herb Ritts, photographer
• Carolee Schneeman, artist
• Amy Sillman, painter
• Gordon Stevenson, multimedia artist
• Arthur Tress, photographer
• Tapu Javeri, photographer
• Frances Bean Cobain, visual artist
• Xaviera Simmons, artist
• Daniel Gordon, artist
• Robert C. Bassler, multimedia artist

Writing

• Jedediah Berry, writer
• Keith Botsford, author, editor, journalist, translator, composer
• Mary Caponegro, writer
• Phyllis Chesler, author
• Rikki Ducornet, writer
• J.F. Englert, author, poet, journalist
• Daphne Gottlieb, poet, author
• Ken Grimwood, author
• Anthony Hecht, poet
• Pierre Joris, poet and translator
• Charlotte Mandell, literary translator
• Hal Niedzviecki, novelist
• Albert Jay Nock, author and theorist
• Daniel Pinkwater, novelist and NPR commentator
• Thomas Rockwell author, "How to Eat Fried Worms", Shakespeare Scholar
• Rachel Sherman, author
• Juliana Spahr, poet and critic
• Glenn Stout, author, editor, series editor (The Best American Sports Writing)
• John Yau, poet, publisher

Business

• Asher Edelman, investment banker, served as the basis for the character Gordon Gekko in Wall Street due to his 1985 takeover of Datapoint
• Susan Mernit, Netscape and America Online executive

Science

• Harvey Bialy, molecular biologist
• László Z. Bitó, scientist and novelist
• John Joseph Bittner, cancer geneticist

Journalism

• Dylan Byers, media reporter
• David Cote (writer), critic and writer
• John Curran, financial journalist
• Michael Deibert, author and journalist
• Mark Ebner, journalist and author
• Alexis Papahelas, journalist
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic
• Richard Rovere, journalist, author
• Matt Taibbi, journalist (The Nation, The eXile, The NY Press, Rolling Stone)

Other

• Bruce Chilton, Biblical scholar
• David Rolf, President of SEIU Local 775
• Wayne L. Horvitz, labor mediator.
• Gary Robinson, software engineer, graduated 1979, developed anti-spam algorithms

Faculty

• Peggy Ahwesh
• Diana Al-Hadid
• John Ashbery
• Thurman Barker
• Jonathan Brent
• Franklin Bruno
• Ian Buruma
• Mary Caponegro
• Caleb Carr
• Anne Carson
• Bruce Chilton
• Teju Cole
• Mark Danner
• Moyra Davey
• Tim Davis
• Jeremy Denk
• John Esposito
• Barbara Ess
• Elizabeth Frank
• Neil Gaiman
• Kyle Gann
• Jackie Goss
• Benjamin Hale
• Peter Hutton
• Bill T. Jones
• Jeffrey Kahane
• Ani Kavafian
• Ida Kavafian
• Robert Kelly
• So Yong Kim
• Verlyn Klinkenborg
• David Krakauer
• Ann Lauterbach
• Gideon Lester
• Erica Lindsay
• Norman Manea
• Walter Russell Mead
• Edie Meidav
• Daniel Mendelsohn
• Bradford Morrow
• Salahuddin Mustafa Muhammad
• Jacob Neusner
• Gilles Peress
• Judy Pfaff
• Francine Prose
• Kelly Reichardt
• Jennifer Ringo
• Luc Sante
• Peter Serkin
• Stephen Shore
• Amy Sillman
• Mona Simpson
• Michael Specter
• Richard Teitelbaum
• Michael Tibbetts
• Joan Tower
• George Tsontakis
• Dawn Upshaw
• Laura van den Berg
• Lawrence Weschler

Former faculty

• Chinua Achebe
• Andre Aciman
• JoAnne Akalaitis
• Artine Artinian
• Alfred Jules Ayer
• Bruce Baillie
• Emily Barton
• Bernard Iddings Bell
• Saul Bellow
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• Heinrich Blücher (buried in the Bard Cemetery with his wife, Hannah Arendt)
• Benjamin Boretz
• James Clarke Chace
• Paul de Man
• William Driver
• Jacob Druckman
• Ralph Ellison
• Donald Finkel
• Harvey Fite
• Heinz Insu Fenkl
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• William Gaddis
• Leah Gilliam
• Karen Greenberg
• Daron Hagen
• Bob Holman
• William Humphrey
• Mat Johnson
• Joel Kovel
• Harvey J. Levin
• Roy Lichtenstein
• Ken Lum
• Mary McCarthy
• Allan McCollum
• Adolfas Mekas
• Franco Modigliani
• Toni Morrison
• Vik Muniz
• Elizabeth Murray
• Albert Jay Nock
• Arthur Penn
• Paul Ramirez Jonas
• Orhan Pamuk
• David Rieff
• Roswell Rudd
• Mary Lee Settle
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
• William A. Sleeper
• Wadada Leo Smith
• Wilhelm Sollmann
• Joseph Somers
• William Weaver
• Ted Weiss