Faculty

Bread Loaf Faculty, 2025

Emily Bartels, Dean. BA, Yale College; MA, PhD, Harvard University. Professor of English, Rutgers University. 

Lyndon J. Dominique, Director. BA, University of Warwick; MA, PhD, Princeton University. Associate Professor of English, Lehigh University.

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Barbara Black, AB, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD, University of Virginia. Professor, Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters, Skidmore College.

Angela Brazil, BA, California State University at Chico; MFA, University of Iowa. Associate Professor of the Practice, Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Programs in Acting and Directing; Resident Acting Company Member, Trinity Repertory Company. 

Susan Choi, BA Yale, MFA Cornell. Professor, Johns Hopkins University.

Dare Clubb, BA, Amherst College; MFA, DFA, Yale School of Drama.

Tyler Curtain, BSc, University of Colorado at Boulder; PhD, Johns Hopkins University. Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Stephen Donadio, BA, Brandeis University; MA, PhD, Columbia University. John Hamilton Fulton Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Director Emeritus of the Program in Literary Studies, Middlebury College.

Lars Engle, AB, Harvard College; MA, Cambridge University; PhD, Yale University. Roxana McFarlin Chapman Chair in English, University of Tulsa.

Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, the Public Theater at Astor Place; Professor of Dramatic Writing, Arts, and Public Policy, New York University.

Jonathan Fried, BA, Brown University; MFA University of California, San Diego.

Shalom Goldman, BA, New York University; MA, Columbia University; PhD, New York University. Pardon Tillinghast Professor of Religion, Middlebury College.

Rochelle Johnson, BA, Bates College; MA, PhD, Claremont Graduate University. Bernie McCain Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Environmental Studies, the College of Idaho.

Rebecca Makkai, BA, Washington and Lee University; MA, Middlebury College. MFA Faculty at Bennington College and Northwestern University; Artistic Director, Story Studio Chicago.  Recipient of the 2015 Robert Frost Chair of Literature, BLSE. 

Kate Marshall, BA, University of California, Davis; MA, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Associate Dean of Research and Strategic Initiatives, Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, and Professor of English, University of Notre Dame.

Brian McEleney, BA, Trinity College; MFA, Yale School of Drama. Founding Director of the Brown University/Trinity MFA Programs; Associate Director and Acting Company Member, Trinity Repertory Company.

Cruz Medina, BA, University of California, Santa Barbara; MFA/MA, Chapman University; PhD, University of Arizona. Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Santa Clara University.

Ian Newman, BA, MA, University of Cambridge; PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame.

January O’Neil, BA, Old Dominion University; MFA, New York University. Associate Professor, Salem State University

Mark Rasmussen, BA, MA, Harvard University; PhD, Johns Hopkins University. Charles J. Luellen Professor Emeritus of English, Centre College.

Michelle Bachelor Robinson, BA, Cameron University; MA, PhD, University of Louisville. Director of Comprehensive Writing and English Faculty, Spelman College; Change Curriculum Coordinator, BLSE 

James Chase Sanchez, BA, MA, University of Texas at Tyler; PhD, Texas Christian University. Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Middlebury College.

Ben Steinfeld, BA, MFA, Brown University. Adjunct Professor and Artistic Associate at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University; Co-artistic Director, Fiasco Theater.

Sam Swope, BA, Middlebury College; MA, University of Oxford. Founder and President, Academy for Teachers.

David Bwire (Wandera), BEd, Moi University, Kenya; MA, MLitt, Middlebury College; PhD, The Ohio State University. Associate Professor of Special Education, Language and Literacy, the College of New Jersey; Director of the BLSE Writing Center.

Susanne Wofford, BA, Yale College; BPhil, Oxford University; PhD, Yale University. Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study and English, New York University 

Bryan Wolf, BA, Rice University; MAR, Yale Divinity School; MA, PhD, Yale University. Jones Professor Emeritus in American Art and Culture, Stanford University; Former Visiting Professor, Yale University.

Tamsen Wolff, BA, Smith College; PhD, Columbia University. Associate Professor of English, Princeton University.

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Jeri Johnson, Head Tutor. BA, Brigham Young University; MA, MPhil, University of Oxford. Fellow in English Emerita, Exeter College; Academic Director of the Exeter College Summer Programmes; Professor of English Emerita, University of Oxford.

Stephen Berenson, BFA, Drake University. Founding Director of the Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA Programs in Acting and Directing.

David Dwan, BA, University of Oxford, PhD, University of London. Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History, University of Oxford.

John M. Fyler, AB, Dartmouth College; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Professor of English, Tufts University. Recipient of the 2025 John M. Kirk Chair of Medieval and Early Modern Literature, BLSE.

Alexa Alice Joubin, BA, Tsinghua University, Taiwan; PhD, Stanford University. Professor of English and Director of the Digital Humanities Institute, George Washington University. 

Gwyneth Lewis, BA, University of Cambridge; DPhil, University of Oxford. Former Welsh Poet Laureate; 2014 Bain-Swiggett Visiting Lecturer in Poetry and English, Princeton University; Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for Services to Literature.

David J. Russell, BA, University of Oxford; PhD, Princeton University. Associate Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles. Recipient of the 2025 Frank and Eleanor Griffiths Chair, BLSE.

Annalyn Swan, BA, Princeton University; MA, King’s College, University of Cambridge. Visiting Lecturer, the Graduate Center, CUNY; Biographer. 

Mark Turner, BA, Hampden-Sydney College; MA, PhD, University of London. Professor of English, King’s College London.

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Amy Rodgers, On-Site Director. AB, Columbia University; PhD, University of Michigan. Associate Professor of Film, Media, and Theatre and Dean for the Senior Class, Mount Holyoke College.

Damián Baca, BA, West Texas A&M University; MA, Northern Arizona University; PhD, Syracuse University. Professor of Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona.

Michelle Burnham, BA, Trinity College; MA, PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo. Professor of English, Santa Clara University.

Dennis Denisoff, BA, Simon Fraser University; PhD, McGill University. McFarlin Professor of English and Film, University of Tulsa. Recipient of the 2025 Ruth and Lillian Marino Chair, BLSE.

Ruth Forman, BA, University of California, Berkeley; MFA, University of Southern California. VONA/Voices Writing Workshop.

Michael Wood, BA, MA, PhD, University of Cambridge. Professor Emeritus, Princeton University. 

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Brenda Brueggemann, BA, MA, University of Kansas; PhD, University of Louisville. Professor and Aetna Chair of Writing, University of Connecticut. 

Rochelle Johnson, BA, Bates College; MA, PhD, Claremont Graduate University. Bernie McCain Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Environmental Studies, the College of Idaho.

Administration and Staff

Fallon Abel, Associate Director, Bread Loaf Teacher Network

Dianne M. Baroz, Office Manager; Vermont Campus Coordinator

Gail A. Borden, Administrative Associate; Oxford Campus Coordinator

Karen Browne, Assistant to the Director; California Campus and Online Program Coordinator

Tyler Curtain, Summer Director of Student and Academic Support

Caroline Eisner, Technology Specialist

Claudia Johnson, Director of the Letterpress Program

Brian McEleney, Director of the Program in Theater and of the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble

Tom McKenna, Communications Director, Bread Loaf Teacher Network

Beverly J. Moss, Director, Bread Loaf Teacher Network

Dana Olsen, Administrative Director

Clarissa Segars, Administrative Associate; Assistant to the Bread Loaf Teacher Network Director