Faculty

Bread Loaf Faculty, 2026

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

Barbara Black, AB, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD, University of Virginia. Professor, Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters, Skidmore College. Recipient of the 2026 Ruth and Lillian Marino Chair, BLSE. 

Angela Brazil, BA, California State University at Chico; MFA, University of Iowa. Associate Professor of Theatre/Acting and School of the Arts Theatre Program Coordinator, Dean College; Resident Actor, Trinity Repertory Company.

Dare Clubb, BA, Amherst College; MFA, DFA, Yale School of Drama. Recipient of the 2026 John M. Kirk Chair of Medieval and Early Modern Literature, BLSE.

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. Summer Director of Student and Academic Support, BLSE.

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.

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

John M. Fyler, AB, Dartmouth College; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Professor of English, Tufts University. 

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

Michael R. Katz, BA, Williams College; MA, DPhil, University of Oxford. C.V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies, Middlebury College.

Holly Laird, BA, Bryn Mawr College; PhD, Princeton University. Frances W. O’Hornett Emerita Professor of Literature, University of Tulsa.

Rebecca Makkai, BA, Washington and Lee University; MA, Middlebury College. MFA Faculty at Bennington College and Northwestern University; Artistic Director, Story Studio Chicago. 

Kate Marshall, BA, University of California, Davis; MA, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Thomas J. and Robert T. Rolfs College Professor of English; Director, Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good; Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives, University of Notre Dame.

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. Professor, Salem State University.

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

Cindy D. Rosenthal, BA, Tufts University; MA, New York University; PhD, New York University. Professor of Drama and Dance, Hofstra University.

James Chase Sanchez, BA, MA, University of Texas at Tyler; PhD, Texas Christian University. Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Middlebury College. Recipient of the 2026 Frank and Eleanor Griffiths Chair, BLSE.

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. Director of the Program in Theater, BLSE.

Robert Sullivan, AB, Georgetown University. Writer.

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

Stephen R. Thorne, BA, Loyola Marymount University; MFA, University of Iowa. Associate Director of the Program in Theater.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

David J. Russell,BA, University of Oxford; PhD, Princeton University. Associate Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles.

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.

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.

Mark C. Jerng, BA, Princeton University; PhD, Harvard University. Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis. 

Rachel Lee, BA, Cornell University; PhD, University of California Los Angeles. Professor of English, Gender Studies, and the Institute of Society and Genetics, UCLA.

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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. Recipient of the 2026 Robert Frost Chair of Literature, BLSE.

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.

Cheryl Savageau, BS, Clark University; MA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Poet, Memoirist, Storyteller, Artist.

Administration and Staff

Fallon Abel, Associate Director, Bread Loaf Teacher Network

Dianne M. Baroz, Office Manager; Vermont and 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 BLSE Letterpress Program

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

Ben Steinfeld, Director of the Program in Theater

Stephen Thorne, Associate Director of the Program in Theater

David Bwire (Wandera), Director of the Writing Center