Notable Former Faculty
- W. H. Auden gave a series of lectures on Shakespeare in the spring of 1946 and resided in the Leigh house faculty apartment.
- Steven Bach
- Eric Bentley
- Henry Brant, American composer
- Kenneth Burke, critic
- Louis Calabro, American composer
- Sir Anthony Caro, British sculptor
- Nicholas Delbanco, novelist and director of the Bennington Writers' Workshop
- Bill Dixon, musician
- Peter Drucker, management guru and writer
- Paul Feeley, American painter
- Francis Fergusson, French scholar and translator
- Buckminster Fuller
- John Gardner, novelist
- Martha Graham, dancer
- Lucy Grealy, American poet and writer
- Clement Greenberg, art critic and historian
- Richard Haas, artist
- Stanley Edgar Hyman (whose wife Shirley Jackson used settings in and around Bennington College in her famous short story "The Lottery")
- Edward Hoagland, writer
- Lyman Kipp, sculptor
- Stanley Kunitz, American poet
- Ronnie Landfield, painter, (guest instructor) 1968
- Bernard Malamud, novelist
- Harry Mathews, poet, novelist, essayist
- Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer
- Roland Merullo, author
- Christopher Miller, author
- Howard Nemerov, American poet
- Kenneth Noland, Painter
- Jules Olitski, painter
- Mary Oliver, American poet
- Camille Paglia
- John Plumb, painter
- Jackson Pollock's first retrospective was held at Bennington in 1952.
- Larry Poons, painter
- Theodore Roethke
- Stanley Rosen, American ceramicist, formerly studio manager at the Greenwich House Pottery in the 1950s
- Stephen Sandy, poet
- Joel Shapiro, New York sculptor
- Barbara Herrnstein Smith, professor and author
- David Smith, sculptor
- Michael Todd, sculptor
- Glen Van Brummelen, Historian of Mathematics, former president of Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, founding faculty member of Quest University
- Isaac Witkin, sculptor
- Robert Woodworth, botanist and pioneer of time-lapse photography
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