Faculty

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Éric Trudel (Director)

Area of Specialization: 20th and 21st Century French Literature

Biography: Professor Trudel is the author of La Terreur à l’œuvre: théorie, poétique et éthique chez Jean Paulhan (Paris, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, coll. “L’imaginaire du texte,” 2007), and of several scholarly articles and volume chapters on 19th, 20th and 21st -century French and Francophone Literatures. He coedited Poétiques de la liste et imaginaire sériel (Montréal, Nota Bene, 2019), "Tout peut servir." Pratiques et enjeux du détournement dans le discours littéraire des XX et XXI siècles (Québec, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2011), Jean Paulhan on Poetry and Politics (Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 2008), and oversaw issues of the journals LHT (Crises de lisibilité, 16, 2016, online) and L'Esprit Créateur (“Avant-garde & Arrière-garde in Modernist Literature”, 53/3, 2013; “The Documentary Mode”, 61/2, 2021).

BA, Concordia University, Montreal; MA, French literature, McGill University; PhD, Romance. languages, Princeton University. At Bard since 2002.

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Gabriella Lindsay

Bio: BA, McGill University, Master II, Université de Montpellier III, PhD, New York University. Gabriella Lindsay works on intersections between aesthetics, politics and ethics in 20th and 21st century literature, thought and culture. She has published on the work of Annie Ernaux in the journal Comparative Literature Studies and is currently working on a book on representations of sexual violence and the afterlives of the Algerian War.

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Odile S. Chilton

Licence ès Lettres, Maîtrise ès Lettres, Université du Maine, Le Mans. Teaching assistant, Sheffield University. At Bard since 1987.

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Marina van Zuylen

AB, MA, PhD, Harvard University. Marina van Zuylen is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Bard College. She was educated in France before receiving a BA in Russian literature and a PhD in comparative literature at Harvard. She is the author of Difficulty as an Aesthetic Principle, Monomania, and The Plenitude of Distraction. She has published in praise of some of the most beleaguered maladies of modernity—boredom, fatigue, idleness, mediocrity—and written about snobbery, dissociative disorders, and obsessive compulsive aesthetics. She has published extensively on the work of Jacques Rancière and has written about art and aesthetics for MoMA and other art-related venues. She has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and the University of Paris VII. She is the national academic director of the Clemente Course in the Humanities (clemente.bard.edu), a free college course for underserved adults, and accepted on its behalf a National Humanities Medal from President Obama in 2014. She is presently writing Good Enough, a book about the unsung virtues of classical and modern mediocrity. At Bard since 1997.

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Karen Barkey

BA, Bryn Mawr College; MA, University of Washington; PhD, University of Chicago. Karen Barkey’s research has been engaged in the comparative and historical study of the state, with special focus on its transformation over time. Her work has explored state society relations, peasant movements, banditry, and opposition and dissent organized around the state. Her main empirical site has been the Ottoman Empire, in comparison with France and the Habsburg and Russian Empires. She also pays attention to the Roman and Byzantine worlds as important predecessors of the Ottomans. Her book Empire of Difference (Cambridge University Press, 2008) explores issues such as diversity, the role of religion in politics, Islam and the state as well as the manner in which the Sunni-Shi’a divide operated during the tenure of the Ottoman Empire—topics that remain relevant today. Barkey, who was born in Istanbul, is also coauthor of Choreography of Sacred Spaces: State, Religion and Conflict Resolution (Columbia University Press, 2014), which explores the history of shared religious spaces in the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine/Israel, regions once under Ottoman rule. Recent publications include Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism: India, Pakistan and Turkey (Oxford University Press, 2021) and Shared Sacred Sites: A Contemporary Pilgrimage (City University of New York Publications, 2018). Barkey was awarded the Germaine Tillion Chair of Mediterranean Studies, IMéRA, Marseille for 2021–2022, and has served as professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley; Haas Distinguished Chair of Religious Diversity at the Othering and Belonging Institute; director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion; and codirector of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion. She also taught at Columbia University, where she was director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. At Bard since 2021.
 

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Daniel Berthold

BA, MA, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Yale University. Specialization in continental philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, Freud, and environmental ethics. Author of Hegel’s Grand Synthesis, Hegel’s Theory of Madness, and The Ethics of Authorship: Communication, Seduction, and Death in Hegel and Kierkegaard. Articles and reviews in journals including Clio, Environmental Ethics, History and Theory, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Human Ecology Review, Idealistic Studies, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, International Philosophical Quarterly, International Studies in Philosophy, Journal of European Studies, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Ludus Vitalis, Man and World, Nous, Metaphilosophy, Modern Language Notes, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, Religious Studies, Review of Metaphysics, Social Theory and Practice, and Southern Journal of Philosophy. Contributor to The Dictionary of Existentialism. Editorial board, Topoi Library. Advisory Council, Hastings Center Program in Ethics, Science, and the Environment. At Bard since 1984.

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Katherine Morris Boivin

BA, Tufts University; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. Primary field: Western Medieval Art, in particular Gothic Art and Architecture in Germany; secondary field: Islamic Art. Professor Boivin’s research focuses on the dynamic interactions among figural art, architecture, and devotion/liturgy. She is interested in the spatiality of Late Medieval churches, in the diverse functions of architectural space, and in the ability of form to communicate meaning. She is currently writing a book on the city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber as well as a study of street passages included beneath Medieval churches. Awards and Fellowships: Post Doctoral Fellowship, Université de Montréal (2012–13); Society of Architectural Historians Rosann S. Berry Conference Fellowship (2013); Fulbright Research Grant, Germany (2011–12); British Archaeological Association Conference Travel Grant (2012); DAAD Research Grant, Germany (2011). Publications: “The Chancel Passageways of Norwich,” in: British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions (forthcoming); “Villard Bound and Unbounded,” in: AVISTA 18, no. 1/2 (2008);  “Der Lettner in Gelnhausen,” in: Gelnhäuser Geschichtsblätter (2007).

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Christian Crouch

BA, Princeton University; MA, MPhil, PhD, New York University. Recipient, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2006), W. B. H. Dowse Fellowship (2003–4), Society of Colonial Wars Fellowship (2003–4, 2004–5). Specialization in early modern Atlantic world history, colonial America, slavery, and empire. Author of "Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France" (Cornell University Press, 2014). At Bard since 2006.

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Laurie Dahlberg

BS, MA, Illinois State University; MA, PhD, Princeton Unviersity. National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend (2000); Model/Blum Fellow, National Gallery of Canada (1995); Fowler-McCormick Research Fellowship, Princeton University (1993). Author ofVictor Regnault and the Advance of Photography: The Art of Avoiding Errors (Princeton University Press 2005). Contributor, Louis Robert, L’Alchimie des images (1999); The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (1997); Thomas Eakins and the Heart of American Life (1993); Larry Fink 55 (Phaidon Press, 2003). At Bard since 1996.

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Tabetha Ewing 

BA, Bard College (1989); MA, PhD (History), Princeton University. Subjects: 18th-Century France, Early Modern Europe, French Empire, History of the Book. Author of Rumor, Diplomacy and War in Enlightenment Paris (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2014). Current research is on French royal power, extradition, and the emergence of modern, political subjectivity. At Bard since 2000.

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Peter Laki

Diploma in Musicology, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest; PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Program annotator, Cleveland Orchestra (1990– ); editor, Bartók and His World (Princeton University Press, 1995); contributor, Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra and Cambridge Companion to Bartók; articles in Orbis Musicae, International Journal of Musicology, Institute for Canadian Music Newsletter, Hungarian Quarterly, others. Visiting assistant professor, Oberlin College (2003– ); has also taught at Case Western Reserve University, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, John Carroll University, Kent State University. At Bard since 2007.

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Alys Moody

Alys Moody teaches and writes about modernism and world literature. She is the author of The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism and the editor, with Stephen J. Ross, of Global Modernists on Modernism: An Anthology. She is currently writing a book about world hunger and world literature, and translating the collected essays of the Martinican decolonial literary critic, René Ménil. In September 2021, she will begin a four-year term as the co-editor of the journal Modernism/modernity. Born and raised in country Australia, she lived and taught in France, the UK, New Zealand and Australia before coming to Bard in 2019.

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Karen Sullivan

AB, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Author of The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors (University of Chicago Press, 2011); Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2005); The Interrogation of Joan of Arc (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), and numerous articles on medieval French and Occitan literature. At Bard since 1993.

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Masha Shpolberg

Masha Shpolberg is Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts at Bard College. Her teaching and research explore world cinema with a particular emphasis on ecocinema, women's cinema, and documentary. While much of her scholarship centers on Eastern Europe, she regularly teaches francophone cinemas as well. She attended the Ecole Normale Supérieure as a Sélection Internationale student and completed an MA in Film Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle--Paris 3. She holds a joint Ph.D. from Yale University and the ENS.