The following is a list of notable Middlebury College faculty, including current and former faculty. For a list of Middlebury alumni, refer to the list of Middlebury College alumni. Notable faculty Arts Suzanne Bocanegra – Professor of Art François Clemmons – Grammy Award-winning singer, Artist-in-residence and Twilight Scholar Jason Mittell – Professor of Film and Media Culture Patrick McNaughton – art historian, Instructor of Art History Su Lian Tan – composer and flautist, Professor of Music Humanities and literature Eve Adler – Professor of Greek, Latin and Hebrew Harold Bloom – taught at Bread Loaf School of English John Engels – poet, Professor of Literature Frank Hugh Foster – Professor of Philosophy Robert Frost – Professor of Poetry at Middlebury's Bread Loaf School of English; a major influence on the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference John Gardner – taught at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference David Huddle – professor of creative writing, poetry and autobiography at Middlebury's Bread Loaf School of English John Irving – taught at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Donald Justice – taught at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Toni Morrison – taught at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Howard Nemerov – taught at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference G. Dennis O'Brien – Professor of Philosophy, 8th President of the University of Rochester Robert Pack – taught English; from 1973 to 1995 served as director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Jay Parini – Professor of Literature of Writing, co-founder of the New England Review, author of The Last Station John Crowe Ransom – taught at Bread Loaf School of English Theodore Roethke – taught at Bread Loaf School of English Mark Strand – taught at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference William Carlos Williams – taught at Bread Loaf School of English Languages Oskar Seidlin – Professor of German Mark R.V. Southern – Professor of German and Linguistics Ghil'ad Zuckermann – Professor of Hebrew Linguistics Natural sciences Charles Baker Adams – Professor of Chemistry and Natural History Matthew T. Dickerson – Professor of Computer Science, scholar of the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings Anne Kelly Knowles – Professor of Geography Ronald D. Liebowitz – 16th President of Middlebury College, former Professor of Geography Bill McKibben – American environmentalist and Schumann Distinguished Scholar of Environmental Science Reuben D. Mussey – Professor of Medicine John S. Rigden – Professor of Physics, former editor of the American Journal of Physics, fellow of the