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Thomas Wild
Associate Professor of German; Director, German Studies; First Year Seminar; Research Director, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities
Office: Aspinwall, 300
Phone: 845-758-7363
E-mail: twild@bard.edu
Biography
Thomas Wild, Associate Professor of German Studies and Literature, works on modern European and German literature and culture. In his research as well as in his teaching he’s particularly interested in the intersections between literature and history, politics, and philosophy. A current focus of his work addresses the poetics and ethics of multilingualism. Thomas Wild has published an introductory book on Hannah Arendt’s life, work, and reception and a monograph on Hannah Arendt’s intellectual relationships with post-war writers. His most recent book on the distinguished poet Ilse Aichinger discusses a contemporary poetics of hospitality. Several editions of letters emerged from Thomas Wild’s ongoing intrigue for correspondences and intellectual networks, including prominent writers such as Uwe Johnson, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and Joachim Fest. Poetry is an interlocutor in most of his courses and in many of his publications, among the latter are a collection of poems by Thomas Brasch and translations of contemporary American poets. Thomas Wild serves as general editor on the distinguished international team preparing the first scholarly edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works, which appears in print and digitally, presenting all published and unpublished writings of this eminent thinker in the original English and in the original German – a project providing the foundation for future research on Hannah Arendt, digital humanities, and what it means to think in a plurality of languages.
Phone: 845-758-7363
E-mail: twild@bard.edu
Primary Academic Program:German Studies
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, Hannah Arendt Center
Biography
Thomas Wild, Associate Professor of German Studies and Literature, works on modern European and German literature and culture. In his research as well as in his teaching he’s particularly interested in the intersections between literature and history, politics, and philosophy. A current focus of his work addresses the poetics and ethics of multilingualism. Thomas Wild has published an introductory book on Hannah Arendt’s life, work, and reception and a monograph on Hannah Arendt’s intellectual relationships with post-war writers. His most recent book on the distinguished poet Ilse Aichinger discusses a contemporary poetics of hospitality. Several editions of letters emerged from Thomas Wild’s ongoing intrigue for correspondences and intellectual networks, including prominent writers such as Uwe Johnson, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and Joachim Fest. Poetry is an interlocutor in most of his courses and in many of his publications, among the latter are a collection of poems by Thomas Brasch and translations of contemporary American poets. Thomas Wild serves as general editor on the distinguished international team preparing the first scholarly edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works, which appears in print and digitally, presenting all published and unpublished writings of this eminent thinker in the original English and in the original German – a project providing the foundation for future research on Hannah Arendt, digital humanities, and what it means to think in a plurality of languages.
Franz R. Kempf
Professor of German
Office: Aspinwall, 301
Phone: 845-758-7213
E-mail: kempf@bard.edu
Primary Academic Program:German Studies
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures
Biography
M.A. in German, M.A. in Russian, University of Utah; Ph.D., Harvard University. Author, Poetry, Painting, Park: Goethe and Claude Lorrain (2020), Everyone’s Darling: Kafka and the Critics of His Short Fiction (1994), Albrecht von Hallers Ruhm als Dichter: Eine Rezeptionsgeschichte (1986), Deutsche Gegenwart (1985, with Robert E. Helbling). Articles and papers on Goethe, Fontane, Kafka, Brecht, Dürrenmatt, von Haller, Wieland, and language pedagogy. Book reviews for several scholarly journals. Editorial advisory board, Die Unterrichtspraxis and Colloquia Germanica. President, Hudson Valley Chapter, American Association of Teachers of German (1990–92). At Bard since 1985.
Stephanie Kufner
Visting Associate Professor of German, Academic Director, Center for Foreign Languages and Cultures; Coordinator of FLCL;
Office: Olin Language Center, 203
Phone: 845-758-7443
E-mail: kufner@bard.edu
Phone: 845-758-7443
E-mail: kufner@bard.edu
Primary Academic Program: German Studies,
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, First-Year Seminar
Biography
Teaching Diploma, English Language and Business Administration, University of Munich; M.A. and Ph.D. in German, SUNY Albany. Articles, papers, and talks on Friedrich Schiller, language acquisition, technology, and language pedagogy. Academic Director, Center for Foreign Languages and Cultures, Bard College (1995– ). At Bard since 1990.
Gregory B. Moynahan
Associate Professor of History; Codirector, Science, Technology, and Society
Phone: 845-758-7296
E-mail: moynahan@bard.edu
Office: Fairbairn 106
Primary Academic Program: Historical Studies
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Environmental and Urban Studies, Experimental Humanities, German Studies, Human Rights, Irish and Celtic Studies, Italian Studies, Science, Technology, and Society
E-mail: moynahan@bard.edu
Office: Fairbairn 106
Primary Academic Program: Historical Studies
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Environmental and Urban Studies, Experimental Humanities, German Studies, Human Rights, Irish and Celtic Studies, Italian Studies, Science, Technology, and Society
Biography
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Recipient, Bundeskanzler/Humboldt, DAAD, and Foreign Language Area Studies (Czech) fellowships. Specialization in modern European intellectual and cultural history and the history of science and technology. Research interests include history of the social sciences, systems theory, and computing/cybernetics in the two Germanys. Author, Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany, 1899-1919 (2013, Anthem Press/London). Articles in Perspectives on Science, Science in Context, Simmel Studies, and Qui Parle. Associate Professor of History; Chair, Social Studies Division; Codirector, Science, Technology, and Society. At Bard since 2001.
Ruth Zisman
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Co-Director of the Bard Debate Union, Term Assistant Professor of Social Studies
Office: Achebe House 7
Phone: x4512
E-mail: zisman@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Human Rights, Philosophy
Academic Expertise: Philosophy
Area of Specialization: German Philosophy
Biography
B.A. (philosophy and literature), Vassar College; M.A. (humanities and social thought), Ph.D. (German studies), New York University. Areas of specialization include the German philosophical tradition (Kant, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger), political philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, feminist theory, and the relationship between philosophy and literature. Has taught at NYU and various workshops and institutes throughout Europe and the United States, held fellowships in Berlin and Weimar Germany, and presented at academic conferences at Cornell, Yale, and the University of Zurich. At Bard: 2004-08; 2011- .
Interests:
Research Interests: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Freud; political philosophy; psychoanalysis; critical theory
Other Interests: feminism; trauma studies
Phone: x4512
E-mail: zisman@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Human Rights, Philosophy
Academic Expertise: Philosophy
Area of Specialization: German Philosophy
Biography
B.A. (philosophy and literature), Vassar College; M.A. (humanities and social thought), Ph.D. (German studies), New York University. Areas of specialization include the German philosophical tradition (Kant, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger), political philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, feminist theory, and the relationship between philosophy and literature. Has taught at NYU and various workshops and institutes throughout Europe and the United States, held fellowships in Berlin and Weimar Germany, and presented at academic conferences at Cornell, Yale, and the University of Zurich. At Bard: 2004-08; 2011- .
Interests:
Research Interests: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Freud; political philosophy; psychoanalysis; critical theory
Other Interests: feminism; trauma studies
Daniel Berthold
Professor of Philosophy; Guest Lecturer, Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Office: Aspinwall 101
Phone: x7208
E-mail: berthold@bard.edu
Phone: x7208
E-mail: berthold@bard.edu
Primary Academic Program: Philosophy
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Environmental and Urban Studies, French Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, German Studies, Theology
Academic Expertise: Philosophy
Area of Specialization: 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy, phenomenology and existentialism, environmental ethics, medical ethics, feminist philosophy
Biography
B.A., M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., 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 & 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.
Interests
Research Interests: Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Freud, Camus, Sartre, environmental ethics, bioethic
Teaching Interests: 19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy, environmental ethics, medical ethics, genetics ethics, existentialism, Freud, feminist philosophy
Peter Laki
Visiting Associate Professor of Music
Phone: 216-338-2448
E-mail: laki@bard.edu
Office: Blum 203
Primary Academic Program: Music
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Bard Conservatory of Music: Music Theory and History, First-Year Seminar, French Studies
Biography
Diploma in Musicology, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest; Ph.D., 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.
Rufus Müller
Associate Professor of Music
Phone: 845-758-6822 x7352
E-mail: muller@bard.edu
Office: Blum 201
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Music
Biography
B.A., M.A., Oxford University. Tenor; has had distinguished career in opera, oratorio, and recital. Debuted as Bastien in Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne at Kent Opera (1984); has performed, taught, and coached throughout Europe, Japan, and North America. Has worked under Gustav Leonhardt, Frans Brüggen, Ivan Fischer, René Jacobs, and other eminent conductors. CD recordings include performances in Bach’s St. John Passion (BWV 245) under John Eliot Gardiner, and Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy under Roger Norrington. First prize, English Song Award (1985); winner, Oratorio Society of New York Singing Competition (1999). At Bard since 2006.
Justus Rosenberg
Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor of Languages and Literature
Phone: 845-758-7244
E-mail: rosenber@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, French Studies, Jewish Studies, Literature
Academic Expertise: Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures
Area of Specialization: Politics and ideology in modern literature
Biography
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati; L.L., Sorbonne, Paris. Postdoctoral research fellow, Columbia University, Syracuse University. Guest professor, New School University and universities of Belgrade, Cologne, Singapore, and Aix-en-Provence. Recipient of awards from New York Council for the Humanities, New School University. Publications: Constant Factors in Translation; Sound and Structure of English; Rilke’s Duino Elegies; Bertolt Brecht in Mandarin; Le Bateau Sobre; numerous reviews, biographies, translations. At Bard since 1962.
Interests
Research Interests: The writing of biographies and autobiographies
Teaching Interests: Translations, Senior Projects; contemporary non-Western literature; 19th-century European novel; ten plays that shook the world; understanding Modernism and post-Modernism
Other Interests: History and cultural history; the theater
Leon Botstein
President of the College; Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities
Phone: 845-758-7423
E-mail: president@bard.edu
B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of History. Lecturer, Department of History, Boston University (1969); special assistant to the president, Board of Education, City of New York (1969–70); president, Franconia College (1970–75). Editor, The Musical Quarterly (1992– ). Music director and conductor, American Symphony Orchestra (1992– ) and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra/Israel Broadcasting Authority (2003– ). Conductor, Hudson Valley Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (1981–92). Coartistic director, Bard Music Festival (1990– ). Guest conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bern Symphony, Bochum Symphony Orchestra (Germany), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Düsseldorf Symphony, Georg Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra (Bucharest), Hudson Valley Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Madrid Opera, NDR Symphony Orchestra (Hamburg), New York City Opera, ORF Orchestra (Vienna), Philharmonia Orchestra (London), Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Wroclaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Recordings with the American Symphony Orchestra (Arabesque, Vanguard Classics/Omega, Koch/Schwann, New World Records, Telarc); BBC Symphony Orchestra (Chandos, Telarc); Hanover Radio Symphony Orchestra (Koch International Classics); London Philharmonic Orchestra (IMP Masters, Telarc); London Symphony Orchestra (Telarc, Carlton Classics); National Philharmonic of Lithuania (Arabesque), NDR Radio Philharmonic (Koch International); NDR Symphony Orchestra (New World Records); Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston (CRI); Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Arabesque). Honors include membership in the American Philosophical Society, the Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, Austrian Cross of Honor First Class, Centennial Medal from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Frederic E. Church Award for Arts and Sciences, National Arts Club Gold Medal. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Board chair, Central European University; board member, Open Society Institute, Foundation for Jewish Culture. Member, National Advisory Committee for Yale–New Haven Teachers, National Council for Chamber Music America. Past chair, Association of Episcopal Colleges, Harper’s Magazine Foundation, New York Council for the Humanities. Articles in newspapers and journals including Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, Gramophone, Harper’s, Musical Quarterly, New Republic, New York Times, 19th-Century Music, Partisan Review, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Salmagundi, Times Literary Supplement. Essays and chapters in a number of books about art, education, history, and music, including the Cambridge Companions to Music series and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Contributor to volumes in the Bard Music Festival series on Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Copland, Debussy, Dvoˇrák, Elgar, Haydn, Ives, Janáˇcek, Liszt, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Schumann, Shostakovich, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner, published by Princeton University Press. Editor, The Compleat Brahms (W. W. Norton, 1999). Author, Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture (Doubleday, 1997); Judentum und Modernität: Essays zur Rolle der Juden in der Deutschen und Österreichischen Kultur, 1848–1938 (Böhlau Verlag, 1991; Russian translation Belveder, 2003); The History of Listening: How Music Creates Meaning (forthcoming, Basic Books); Music and Modernism (forthcoming, Yale University Press). (1975– ) Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities.
E-mail: president@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Bard Conservatory of Music, Bard Conservatory of Music: Music Theory and History, German Studies, Historical Studies, Jewish Studies, Music
BiographyB.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of History. Lecturer, Department of History, Boston University (1969); special assistant to the president, Board of Education, City of New York (1969–70); president, Franconia College (1970–75). Editor, The Musical Quarterly (1992– ). Music director and conductor, American Symphony Orchestra (1992– ) and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra/Israel Broadcasting Authority (2003– ). Conductor, Hudson Valley Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (1981–92). Coartistic director, Bard Music Festival (1990– ). Guest conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bern Symphony, Bochum Symphony Orchestra (Germany), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Düsseldorf Symphony, Georg Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra (Bucharest), Hudson Valley Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Madrid Opera, NDR Symphony Orchestra (Hamburg), New York City Opera, ORF Orchestra (Vienna), Philharmonia Orchestra (London), Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Wroclaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Recordings with the American Symphony Orchestra (Arabesque, Vanguard Classics/Omega, Koch/Schwann, New World Records, Telarc); BBC Symphony Orchestra (Chandos, Telarc); Hanover Radio Symphony Orchestra (Koch International Classics); London Philharmonic Orchestra (IMP Masters, Telarc); London Symphony Orchestra (Telarc, Carlton Classics); National Philharmonic of Lithuania (Arabesque), NDR Radio Philharmonic (Koch International); NDR Symphony Orchestra (New World Records); Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston (CRI); Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Arabesque). Honors include membership in the American Philosophical Society, the Carnegie Corporation Academic Leadership Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts, Austrian Cross of Honor First Class, Centennial Medal from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Frederic E. Church Award for Arts and Sciences, National Arts Club Gold Medal. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Board chair, Central European University; board member, Open Society Institute, Foundation for Jewish Culture. Member, National Advisory Committee for Yale–New Haven Teachers, National Council for Chamber Music America. Past chair, Association of Episcopal Colleges, Harper’s Magazine Foundation, New York Council for the Humanities. Articles in newspapers and journals including Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, Gramophone, Harper’s, Musical Quarterly, New Republic, New York Times, 19th-Century Music, Partisan Review, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Salmagundi, Times Literary Supplement. Essays and chapters in a number of books about art, education, history, and music, including the Cambridge Companions to Music series and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Contributor to volumes in the Bard Music Festival series on Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Copland, Debussy, Dvoˇrák, Elgar, Haydn, Ives, Janáˇcek, Liszt, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Schumann, Shostakovich, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner, published by Princeton University Press. Editor, The Compleat Brahms (W. W. Norton, 1999). Author, Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture (Doubleday, 1997); Judentum und Modernität: Essays zur Rolle der Juden in der Deutschen und Österreichischen Kultur, 1848–1938 (Böhlau Verlag, 1991; Russian translation Belveder, 2003); The History of Listening: How Music Creates Meaning (forthcoming, Basic Books); Music and Modernism (forthcoming, Yale University Press). (1975– ) Leon Levy Professor in the Arts and Humanities.
Garry L. Hagberg
James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy
Office: Aspinwall 110
Phone: x7270
E-mail: hagberg@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Philosophy
Phone: x7270
E-mail: hagberg@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Philosophy
Biography
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Oregon. Postdoctoral research, Cambridge University. Author, Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory and Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge; contributions to Historical Reflections, Henry James Review, Philosophy, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Mind, New Novel Review, Philosophical Quarterly, Ethics, Perspectives of New Music, Encyclopedia of the Essay, and Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships and grants: Dartmouth College; Cambridge University Library; British Library, London; St. John�s College, Cambridge University. At Bard since 1990.
Christopher Gibbs
James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music; Artistic Codirector, Bard Music Festival
Phone: 845-758-7108
E-mail: gibbs@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Bard Conservatory of Music: Music Theory and History, Music
Academic Expertise: Music
Area of Specialization: Music History
Research Interests: Music biography; reception history; opera; 19th-century music
Teaching Interests: 19th-century music; opera
Other Interests: Vienna
E-mail: gibbs@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Bard Conservatory of Music: Music Theory and History, Music
Academic Expertise: Music
Area of Specialization: Music History
Biography
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University. Recipient, Dissertation Prize of the Austrian Cultural Institute (1992), ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award (1998); fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (1999–2000). Musicological director of the Schubertiade at the 92nd Street Y in New York City; musicological adviser for the Schubert Festival at Carnegie Hall (1997) and the Bard Music Festival (2000, 2002); coartistic director, Bard Music Festival (2003– ). Program annotator and musicological consultant, Philadelphia Orchestra (2000– ). Author, The Life of Schubert (2000); editor, The Cambridge Companion to Schubert (1997); coeditor, Liszt and His World (2006); associate editor, The Musical Quarterly. Contributor to New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 19th-Century Music, Schubert durch die Brille, Current Musicology, Opera Quarterly, and Chronicle of Higher Education. Faculty, SUNY Buffalo (1993–2003). At Bard since 2002.
Research Interests: Music biography; reception history; opera; 19th-century music
Teaching Interests: 19th-century music; opera
Other Interests: Vienna
Thomas Bartscherer
Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities
Office: Hegeman 303
Phone: 845-758-7142
E-mail: bart@bard.edu
Primary Academic Program: Literature
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Classical Studies, First-Year Seminar, Philosophy
Biography
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph. D., University of Chicago. Bartscherer works on the intersection of literature and philosophy in the ancient Greek and modern German traditions, focusing on tragic drama, aesthetics, and performance. He also writes on technology, new media, and contemporary art, and has published translations from German and French. He is co-editor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros Ancient and Modern with Shadi Bartsch and Switching Codes with Roderick Coover, both from the University of Chicago Press. He is a research associate on the Équipe Nietzsche at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (Paris) and has held research fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure, the University of Heidelberg, and the LMU in Munich. He has received fellowships from the DAAD, and from the Woodrow Wilson, Nef, and Earhart foundations. Bartscherer previously taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. At Bard since 2008.
Phone: 845-758-7142
E-mail: bart@bard.edu
Primary Academic Program: Literature
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Classical Studies, First-Year Seminar, Philosophy
Biography
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph. D., University of Chicago. Bartscherer works on the intersection of literature and philosophy in the ancient Greek and modern German traditions, focusing on tragic drama, aesthetics, and performance. He also writes on technology, new media, and contemporary art, and has published translations from German and French. He is co-editor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros Ancient and Modern with Shadi Bartsch and Switching Codes with Roderick Coover, both from the University of Chicago Press. He is a research associate on the Équipe Nietzsche at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (Paris) and has held research fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure, the University of Heidelberg, and the LMU in Munich. He has received fellowships from the DAAD, and from the Woodrow Wilson, Nef, and Earhart foundations. Bartscherer previously taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. At Bard since 2008.
Peter D. Skiff
Professor Emeritus of Physics
Phone: 845-758-7286
E-mail: skiff@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): German Studies, Physics, Science, Technology, and Society
Biography
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.S., University of Houston; Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Postdoctoral conferences in quantum theory, classical Athens, history of science, philosophy of science. Consultant, Baylor University College of Medicine, Engineering Enterprises, Inc. Articles in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Foundations of Physics, American Journal of Physics, Choice, American Archaeologist, Computers in Physics, Journal of Dialectics of Nature (Beijing). Referee for World Scientific Advances in Applied Mathematics, Foundations of Physics, Cambridge University Press. At Bard since 1966.
Tom Wolf
Professor of Art History
Office: Fisher Annex 111
Phone: 845-758-7247
E-mail: wolf@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): American Studies, Art History, Asian Studies, German Studies
Academic Expertise: Art History
Area of Specialization: 20th Century
Biography
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Paintings exhibited at Artists Space, New York; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles; Art Gallery of Western Australia. Curator, Dutch Scripture Paintings; Konrad Cramer; Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Painter/Photographer; and Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony. Author, Konrad Cramer: A Retrospective; Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1986); Woodstock’s Art Heritage (1987); Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Women (1993); among other exhibitions. Essays in Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony (2003); Carl Eric Lindin, from Sweden to Woodstock (2004). Recipient, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Winterthur Museum and Library Fellowships. At Bard since 1971.
Interests:
Research Interests: Asian American artists, American art colonies, contemporary art
Teaching Interests: 20th-century art, American art, decorative arts, feminism, asian american art, contemporary art
Other Interests: literature, popular music
Phone: 845-758-7247
E-mail: wolf@bard.edu
Academic Program Affiliation(s): American Studies, Art History, Asian Studies, German Studies
Academic Expertise: Art History
Area of Specialization: 20th Century
Biography
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Paintings exhibited at Artists Space, New York; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles; Art Gallery of Western Australia. Curator, Dutch Scripture Paintings; Konrad Cramer; Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Painter/Photographer; and Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony. Author, Konrad Cramer: A Retrospective; Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1986); Woodstock’s Art Heritage (1987); Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Women (1993); among other exhibitions. Essays in Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony (2003); Carl Eric Lindin, from Sweden to Woodstock (2004). Recipient, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Winterthur Museum and Library Fellowships. At Bard since 1971.
Interests:
Research Interests: Asian American artists, American art colonies, contemporary art
Teaching Interests: 20th-century art, American art, decorative arts, feminism, asian american art, contemporary art
Other Interests: literature, popular music
Hannah Arendt Center
Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-born Jewish American political theorist. She escaped Europe during the Holocaust, becoming an American citizen. Her works deal with the nature of power and the subjects of politics, direct democracy, authority, and totalitarianism.
The Arendt Center cares for and makes available the Hannah Arendt Library, with nearly 5000 books from Hannah Arendt’s personal library, many with marginalia and notes. The Arendt Center oversees projects including The Courage to Be, Hate and the Human Condition, and The American Jewish Peace Archive. At Bard, the Arendt Center sponsors short courses on Hannah Arendt and the themes for our conferences and sponsors numerous lectures and events for students, faculty, and members. Above all, the Arendt Center promotes thinking that challenges common sense assumptions and gives depth to public understandings. The effort is to provide an intellectual space for thinking that can reframe the questions that form the center of our democracy.
The Arendt Center cares for and makes available the Hannah Arendt Library, with nearly 5000 books from Hannah Arendt’s personal library, many with marginalia and notes. The Arendt Center oversees projects including The Courage to Be, Hate and the Human Condition, and The American Jewish Peace Archive. At Bard, the Arendt Center sponsors short courses on Hannah Arendt and the themes for our conferences and sponsors numerous lectures and events for students, faculty, and members. Above all, the Arendt Center promotes thinking that challenges common sense assumptions and gives depth to public understandings. The effort is to provide an intellectual space for thinking that can reframe the questions that form the center of our democracy.