Bread Loaf School of English adds North Carolina
campus for summer 2006
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — President Ronald D. Liebowitz has announced that Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English will open its fifth site, at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, in the summer of 2006.
The Bread Loaf School of English, a graduate school offering the M.A. and M.Litt. degrees, enrolls about 550 students each summer, most of them secondary-school teachers of English and language arts. The School of English was founded in 1920; it takes its name from its site, at the foot of Bread Loaf Mountain, outside Middlebury, in Vermont's Green Mountains.
Beginning in 1978, Bread Loaf began opening campuses away from Middlebury; there are currently campuses at Lincoln College, University of Oxford; St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. Truly a national institution, with the opening of its fifth campus in North Carolina the Bread Loaf School of English will have sites in all four quadrants of the country.
The curricula of all the non-Vermont Bread Loaf campuses reflect the unique qualities of their locations. In Asheville, there will be a special emphasis on Southern literature and African-American literature. There will also be courses in English literature, the teaching of writing, and creative writing.
For more information on the Bread Loaf School of English, visit the school's web site.