List of Bennington College people

This list of notable people associated with Bennington College includes matriculating students, alumni, attendees, faculty, trustees, and honorary degree recipients of Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont.

Notable alumni

Architecture

Art administration

Aviation

Business

Dance/choreography

Education

Film/theater/television

Government/public service

Journalism/broadcasting

Music

Science/medicine

Sports

Visual arts

Writing

Fictional characters

Notable current faculty

• Benjamin Anastas
• April Bernard
• J Stoner Blackwell
• Kitty Brazelton
• Brian Campion
• Susan Cheever
• Franny Choi
• Annabel Davis-Goff
• Michael Dumanis
• Anaïs Duplan
• Marguerite Feitlowitz
• Monica Ferrell
• David Gates
• Mariam Ghani
• Amy Hempel
• Sherry Kramer
• Dinah Lenney
• Jen Liu
• Mary Lum
• Ann Pibal
• Lynne Sharon Schwartz
• Allen Shawn
• Craig Morgan Teicher
• Mark Wunderlich

Notable former faculty

• Kathleen Alcott: novelist
• W. H. Auden: gave a series of lectures on Shakespeare in the spring of 1946; resided in the Leigh house faculty apartment
• Steven Bach
• Ben Belitt: poet and language professor
• Eric Bentley
• Henry Brant: composer
• Kenneth Burke: critic
• Louis Calabro: composer
• Sir Anthony Caro: British sculptor
• Ronald L. Cohen: psychologist
• Bernard Cooper: novelist
• Nicholas Delbanco: novelist and director of the Bennington Writers' Workshop
• Bill Dixon: musician
• Peter Drucker: management guru and writer
• Paul Feeley: painter
• Francis Fergusson: French scholar and translator
• Vivian Fine: composer
• Claude Fredericks: poet
• Buckminster Fuller
• John Gardner: novelist
• Martha Graham: dancer
• Milford Graves: musician
• Lucy Grealy: poet and writer
• Clement Greenberg: art critic and historian
• Richard Haas: artist
• Martha Hill: dancer
• Edward Hoagland: writer
• Stanley Edgar Hyman: literary critic (whose wife Shirley Jackson used settings in and around Bennington College in her famous short story "The Lottery")
• Susie Ibarra: musician
• Lyman Kipp: sculptor
• Stanley Kunitz: poet
• Ronnie Landfield: painter, (guest instructor) 1968
• José Limón: dancer and choreographer
• David M. Luebke: historian
• Mac Maharaj: South African politician
• Bernard Malamud: novelist
• Harry Mathews: poet, novelist, essayist
• Donald McKayle: dancer and choreographer
• Roland Merullo: author
• Howard Nemerov: gpoet
• Kenneth Noland: painter
• Jules Olitski: painter
• Mary Oliver: poet
• Camille Paglia: critic
• Gail Thain Parker: president and author
• Wendy Perron: dancer/choreographer
• John Plumb: painter
• Mark Poirier: novelist and short story writer
• Larry Poons: painter
• Theodore Roethke: poet
• Mary Ruefle: poet
• Joel Shapiro: New York sculptor
• Mary Josephine Shelly: colonel
• Brando Skyhorse: novelist
• Barbara Herrnstein Smith: professor and author
• David Smith: sculptor
• Glen Van Brummelen: historian of mathematics, former president of Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, founding faculty member of Quest University
• David Waldstreicher: historian
• Phillip B. Williams: poet
• Isaac Witkin: sculptor
• Robert Woodworth: botanist and pioneer of time-lapse photography

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