Bard College

Bard College in Media

In the X-Men comics, Jean Grey's father is mentioned as being a professor of history at Bard. The town of Annandale-On-Hudson is known as Jean Grey's hometown and where her parents have resided for the entire duration of the series. According to the comics, Professor Xavier is also an alum of Bard, where Professor Grey taught him history.

Related Topics:
X-Men - Professor Xavier

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Mary McCarthy's novel, "The Groves of Academe" is ostensibly set in Bard during the late forties, when she taught there.

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Bard is also described as "My Old School" in the Steely Dan song of the same name in which Fagen remembers "when you put me on The Wolverine up to Annandale." Fagen sings he will only return to Bard when "California tumbles into the sea".

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