List of Middlebury College faculty
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The following is a list of notable Middlebury
faculty, including current and former faculty. For a list of Middlebury
alumni, refer to the list of Middlebury College alumni.
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...
faculty, including current and former faculty. For a list of Middlebury
Middlebury College
Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...
alumni, refer to the list of Middlebury College alumni.
Notable faculty
Arts
- Suzanne BocanegraSuzanne BocanegraSuzanne Bocanegra is an American artist based out of New York. Her works include performance and installation art as well as visual and sound art...
- Professor of Art - Francois ClemmonsFrançois Clemmons"Dr." François Scarborough Clemmons is an American singer, performer, playwright and university lecturer. He is perhaps best known for his appearances on the PBS television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood throughout the 1970s.-History:Clemmons was born in Alabama, but his family moved to...
- Grammy awardGrammy AwardA Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
-winning singer, Artist-in-residence and Twilight Scholar - Jason MittellJason MittellJason Mittell is an associate professor of American studies and film and media culture at Middlebury College whose research interests include the history of television, media, culture, and new media. He is author of two books, Genre and Television and Television and American Culture...
- Professor of Film and Media Culture - Su Lian TanSu Lian TanSu Lian Tan is a renowned composer and flautist. Her works, which tend to be regarded as avant-garde, have been commissioned by the Takács Quartet, Meridian Arts Ensemble and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project...
- Composer and flautist, Professor of Music
Humanities and Literature
- Eve AdlerEve AdlerEve Adler was an American classicist who taught at Middlebury College for 25 years until her death in 2004. Adler was a graduate of Queens College with a B.A. in Hebrew, of Brandeis University with a M.A. in Mediterranean Studies and of Cornell University, where she got her doctorate in Classics...
- Professor of Greek, Latin and Hebrew - John EngelsJohn EngelsJohn Engels was an American poet.-Life:He graduated from University of Notre Dame in 1952. After Navy service, he studied at the University College, Dublin, then graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with an M.F.A. in 1957. He taught at St...
- Poet, Professor of Literature - Frank Hugh FosterFrank Hugh FosterFrank Hugh Foster, Ph. D., D.D. was an American clergyman of the Congregational church. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and graduated at Harvard in 1873....
- Professor of Philosophy - Robert FrostRobert FrostRobert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
- Professor of Poetry at Middlebury's Bread Loaf School of English and a major influence on the Bread Loaf Writers' ConferenceBread Loaf Writers' ConferenceThe Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is a writers' conference held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont... - David HuddleDavid HuddleDavid Ross Huddle is an American writer and professor. His most recent book is Glory River: Poems...
- Professor of creative writing, poetry and autobiography at Middlebury's Bread Loaf School of English - G. Dennis O'BrienG. Dennis O'BrienGeorge Dennis O'Brien is an American philosopher who most notably served as the eighth President of the University of Rochester....
- Professor of Philosophy, 8th President of the University of RochesterUniversity of RochesterThe University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The... - Jay PariniJay PariniJay Parini is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels and poetry, biography and criticism.He was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and brought up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1970 and was awarded a doctorate by the University of St. Andrews in 1975...
- Professor of Literature of Writing, co-founder of the New England ReviewNew England ReviewThe New England Review is a quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College. Founded in New Hampshire in 1978 by poet, novelist, editor and professor Sydney Lea and poet Jay Parini, it was published as New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly from 1982 , until 1991 as a formal...
, author of The Last StationThe Last StationThe Last Station is a 2009 biographical drama film directed by Michael Hoffman. It is an adaptation of the 1990 biographical novel of the same name by Jay Parini about the final months of Leo Tolstoy's life. The film stars Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and Helen Mirren as his wife Sophia Tolstaya...
Languages
- Oskar SeidlinOskar SeidlinOskar Seidlin ; German-born American literary scholar, poet, and writer of children’s stories. He is also said to have co‑authored several detective novels or Kriminalromane in collaboration with Dieter Cunz and Richard Plant under the collective pen‑name of Stefan Brockhoff.Born Oskar Koplowitz...
- Professor of German - Mark R.V. SouthernMark R.V. SouthernMark Roderick Vendrell Southern was an Indo-Europeanist and professor of German and linguistics.His research and teaching interests spanned the fields of Linguistics, Classics, Literature, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion...
- Professor of German and Linguistics
Natural Sciences
- Charles Baker AdamsCharles Baker AdamsCharles Baker Adams was an American educator and naturalist.-Biography:He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1814, the son of Charles J...
- Professor of Chemistry and Natural History - Matthew T. DickersonMatthew T. DickersonMatthew T. Dickerson is a professor of computer science at Middlebury College in Vermont, a scholar of the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings, a novelist, a blues musician and historian of music, a fly fisherman, a maple sugar farmer, and a beekeeper....
- Professor of Computer Science, scholar of the fiction of J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. TolkienJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
and the InklingsInklingsThe Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949. The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction, and encouraged the writing of fantasy... - Anne Kelly KnowlesAnne Kelly KnowlesAnne Kelly Knowles is an American geographer and a specialist in Historical GIS. She received her MA and PhD from University of Wisconsin–Madison...
- Professor of Geography - Ronald D. LiebowitzRonald D. LiebowitzRonald D. Liebowitz is the current president of Middlebury College, and a professor of geography. He was named the College's sixteenth president in April 2004, succeeding John McCardell, Jr. on July 1, 2004....
- 16th President of Middlebury College, former Professor of Geography - Bill McKibbenBill McKibbenWilliam Ernest "Bill" McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College...
- American environmentalist and Schumann Distinguished Scholar of Environmental Science - Reuben D. MusseyReuben D. MusseyReuben Dimond Mussey, Sr. was a medical doctor and an early opponent of tobacco. His son Reuben D. Mussey, Jr. was a lawyer and the husband of Ellen Spencer Mussey, the founder of the first law school for females....
- Professor of Medicine - John S. RigdenJohn S. RigdenJohn S. Rigden is an internationally renowned American physicist. His areas of expertise are molecular physics and the history of science. He is currently the co-editor of the scholarly journal Physics in Perspective, published by Birkhäuser Publishing in Basel, Switzerland.-Education:Rigden...
- Professor of Physics, former editor of the American Journal of PhysicsAmerican Journal of PhysicsThe American Journal of Physics is a monthly, peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics. The editor is Jan Tobochnik of Kalamazoo College.-Aims and scope:...
, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAmerican Association for the Advancement of ScienceThe American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...
and the National Academy of SciencesUnited States National Academy of SciencesThe National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and... - Frank WinklerFrank WinklerP. Frank Winkler is an astronomer and noted subject matter expert on supernova. He received his doctorate from Harvard and is currently the Gamaliel Painter Bicentennial Professor in Physics at Middlebury College located in Middlebury, Vermont.Dr...
- Astronomer, Gamaliel Painter Bicentennial Professor of Physics - Richard WolfsonRichard Wolfson (physicist)Richard Wolfson is the Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics at Middlebury College. He is the author of numerous articles and books, several of which include Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified and Nuclear Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Nuclear...
- Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics
Social Sciences
- David ColanderDavid ColanderDavid C. Colander is the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. He is known for his study of the economics profession itself, and the sociology of economics. His books The Making of an Economist and its later edition, The Making of an Economist, Redux, have...
- Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics - Jim DouglasJim DouglasJames H. Douglas is an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont. A Republican, he was elected the 80th Governor of Vermont in 2002 and was reelected three times with a majority of the vote...
- 80th Governor of VermontGovernor of VermontThe Governor of Vermont is the governor of the U.S. state of Vermont. The governor is elected in even numbered years by direct voting for a term of two years; Vermont and bordering New Hampshire are the only states to hold gubernatorial elections every two years, instead of every four...
, Middlebury College Executive in Residence - Murray DryMurray DryMurray Dry is an American political scientist specializing in American constitutional law, American political thought, political philosophy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, federalism, separation of powers, and the American founding. He is perhaps most noted for having helped to compile The...
- Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science - Malcolm David EckelMalcolm David EckelMalcolm David Eckel is the current Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University. He earned two bachelors degrees: one in English at Harvard University and another in Theology at Oxford University...
- Professor of Religion - Roger H. MartinRoger H. MartinRoger Martin , also known Rusty, served as the 14th president of Randolph-Macon College , an independent liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, from July 1997 until January 2006. He is the author of Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again which tells the story of...
- Professor of History, 14th President of Randolph-Macon CollegeRandolph-Macon CollegeRandolph–Macon College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, United States, near the capital city of Richmond. Founded in 1830, the school has an enrollment of over 1,200 students... - John McCardell, Jr.John McCardell, Jr.John Malcolm McCardell, Jr. is the Vice Chancellor of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and the president emeritus and a professor of history at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. He retired as president in June, 2004, after serving thirteen years as the fifteenth...
- 15th President of Middlebury College, Professor of History - Thomas Hedley ReynoldsThomas Hedley ReynoldsThomas Hedley Reynolds was the fifth president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and an American historian.-Education:Reynolds earned a B.A. from Williams College and a Ph.D...
- Professor of History, President of Bates CollegeBates CollegeBates College is a highly selective, private liberal arts college located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. and was most recently ranked 21st in the nation in the 2011 US News Best Liberal Arts Colleges rankings. The college was founded in 1855 by abolitionists... - Steven Clark Rockefeller - Professor of Religion, member of the Rockefeller familyRockefeller familyThe Rockefeller family , the Cleveland family of John D. Rockefeller and his brother William Rockefeller , is an American industrial, banking, and political family of German origin that made one of the world's largest private fortunes in the oil business during the late 19th and early 20th...
- Allison StangerAllison StangerAllison Katherine Stanger is a political scientist and professor, the Russell J. Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College and the founding director of Middlebury's Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.Stanger has been a member of the Council on Foreign...
- Professor of International Politics and Economics - David StollDavid StollDavid Stoll is an American anthropologist. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology from the University of Michigan and completed his Master's and Ph.D. at Stanford University. He spent much of the nineteen-eighties and nineties in Latin American countries such as Colombia and Guatemala,...
- Professor of Anthropology