ENAM News and Events
New England Review
presents
The Vermont Reading Series
Thomas Kivney
Eliza Gilmore
Henriette Lazaridis Power
(The Clover House, Ballantine, 2013)
and
Major Jackson
(Leaving Saturn, U.Ga., 2002;
Hoops, Norton, 2007;
Holding Company, Norton, 2010)
7:00 pm
Thursday, April 18th
Carol's Hungry Mind Cafe
Middlebury
Seniors, save the date!
ENAM
Commencement Reception
Saturday, May 25th
4:30pm
Starr Library at Axinn Center
News & Events
February 26th, 2013
Visiting Poet Karin Gottshall reading.
January 31st, 2013
New England Review Vermont Reading Series
Eileen Brunetto, Jon Mathewson, Julia Shipley and Jacob White.
November 27th, 2012
Alison Bechdel, award-winning graphic novelist
Dykes, Dads, and Moms to Watch Out For: A Talk by Graphic Memoirist Alison Bechdel
Co-sponsored by the Axinn Center at Starr Library Initiative, the First-Year Seminar Program, the Creative Writing Program, the Department of Film and Media Culture, and the Department of English and American Literatures.
November 14th, 2012
Kathryn Davis, author of six novels, Labrador, The Girl Who Trod on a Toad, Versailles, and The Thin Place. She has been the recipient of the Kafka Prize, The Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2006 Lannan Award for Fiction.
November 7th, 2012
Michael Collier, Director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Former Poet Laureate of Maryland
October 11th, 2012
Bianca Stone, Poet and Visual Artist
April 3rd, 2012
David Mungello, Professor of History, Baylor University
Western Queers in China: Flight to the Land of Oz
April 19th, 2012
New England Review Vermont Reading Series
Joan Aleshire
Arthur Bloom
Kristin Fogdall
Kerrin McCadden
Congratulations to ENAM Professor Dan Brayton on the publication of his new book, Shakespeare's Ocean: An Ecocritical Exploration.
April 3rd, 2012
Django Paris, Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy at Michigan State
Language across Difference: Toward Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in Changing Urban Schools
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, the Education Studies Program, the Office of the Dean of the College, the Office of the Provost, and Wonnacott Commons.
March 9th, 2012
Rick Bass
The noted environmentalist discusses selected readings from previously published works and new work.
Co-sponsored by the Program in Environmental Studies and Environmental Affairs.
Congratulations to ENAM Professor Cates Baldridge on the publication of his new book, Prisoners of Prester John; The Portuguese Mission to Ethiopia in Search of the Mythical King, 1520 -- 1526.
March 5th, 2012
Emily Bernard, Associate Professor, University of Vermont
Interracial Intimacy, or The Trouble with Friendship
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity; The Program in American Studies.
March 6th, 2012
Award-winning poet C. Dale Young reads from his latest book, Torn.
Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program; the Abernethy Lecture Series; the Academic Enrichment Fund; the Office of the Dean of the College; the Pre-Med Society; Chellis House and Cook Commons.
February 21st, 2012
David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaun Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
From Gilgamesh to Genesis
Co-sponsored by: the Program in Comparative Literature; the Program in Literary Studies; The Departments of English & American Literatures, German, Italian, Religion, Classics, French and Chinese; the Academic Enrichment Fund; the Tillinghast Fund and Cook, Ross, Wonnacott and Brainerd Commons.
February 20th, 2012
Jacob Weisberg, Executive Editor of Slate Magazine
Government Without Newspapers
(Part of the Meet the Press Lecture Series)
February 14th, 2012
NER Vermont Reading Series
"Will Write for Love," with Addison County writers Jennifer Bates, Karin Gottshall, Carolyn Kuebler, Christopher Ross, Jeffrey Stauch, Karla Van Vliet, and David Weinstock.
Dzanc Books interviews Visiting Poet Karin Gottshall about the process of writing her poem, "Travel".
January 19th, 2012
New England Review Vermont Reading Series
Readings from Stephen Kiernan, Chloe Joan Lopez, Daniel Lusk and Neil Shepard.
November 10th, 2011
Lucas Farrell
The poet and 2003 Middlebury graduate reads from his award-winning collection, The Many Woods of Grief.
November 10th, 2011
New England Review Vermont Reading Series
Readings from Sydney Lea, Ellen Dudley, Gloria Estela Gonzales Zenteno and Leath Tonino.
November 2nd, 2011
Brett Millier
ENAM Department Chair and Reginald L. Cook Professor of American Literature will give a talk: "A Middlebury Dickinson: The Poems of Ellen Kimberly Lane."
(The Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series).
October 18th, 2011
Shannon Cain
The award-winning short story writer reads from her latest collection, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors.
Co-Sponsored by the New England Review and the Program in Creative Writing.
October 15th, 2011
Billy Collins Reading
As part of Fall Family Weekend celebrations, the former Poet Laureate will read from his latest collection, Horoscopes for the Dead.
September 15th, 2011
The Middlebury Campus interviews our new Visiting Poet, Karin Gottshall.
May 9th, 4:00 pm
ENAM Barbecue at Atwater Dining!
May 5th, 2011 at 4:30pm
Senior Creative Writing Thesis students read from their projects.
Karin Gottshall is our new visiting poet! Ms. Gottshall is the author of Crocus (2007) and the chapbook Flood Letters (2011). She will be teaching ENAM 175 in the fall.
April 19, 2011, at 7 pm
New England Review Vermont Reading Series
Four Vermont writers -- Kathryn Kramer, Kellam Ayres, Castle Freeman Jr. and Ted Gilley -- will read from their work.
ENAM Professor Kathryn Kramer (Corinth) is the author of three novels, most recently Sweet Water. She has taught at Middlebury College since 1997.
Kellam Ayres (Middlebury) is a librarian at Middlebury College and a graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English.
Castle Freeman Jr. (Newfane) is the author of four novels, most recently All That I Have, and a regular contributor to Vermont Life.
Ted Gilley (Bennington) is a freelance editor and writer. His book of short stories, Bliss, won the 2009 Prairie Schooner Fiction Prize.
March 22nd 2011
Rebecca Laroche, Chair of the Department of English, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Our Bodies, Our Gardens: Arthur Stacie's Dropsy, Shakespeare's Iago and the Common Knowledge of Plants
Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies.
March 16th 2011
Jay Allison
The producer of NPR's "This I Believe" speaks as part of the "Meet the Press" series.
March 9th 2011
Karin Gottshall
The poet and ENAM Visiting Lecturer reads her new work.
February 24th 2011
Dealing with Uncertainty
ENAM professor Dan Brayton speaks as part of the Howard E. Woodlin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series.
February 22nd 2011
Congratulations to ENAM professor Dan Brayton!
Professor Brayton has been awarded the Northeast Modern Language Association Book Prize for his book Shakespeare's Hungry Ocean: Ecocriticism, Early Modern Culture, and the Marine Environment, forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press.
NeMLA is the northeast regional body of the Modern Language Association.
February 15th 2011
Rick Bass
The noted environmental writer reads from his latest book
Co-sponsored by the Program in Environmental Studies and The Academic Enrichment Fund.
November 11th 2010
Rob Cohen
Being a Jewish Writer
Sponsored by the Hillel Academic forum
October 13th 2010
John Irving
Co-sponsored by the Program in Women's & Gender Studies, Chellis House, the Creative Writing Program and Wonnacott Commons.
September 29th 2010
Howard Frank Mosher
Transforming History into Fiction: The Story of a Born Liar
September 22nd 2010
Dan Brayton
The Middlebury College Lecture Series presents:
Whales in the West: A Creaturely History
September 7th 2010
Ian McEwan
The Booker Prize winner reads from his new book, Solar.
April 30th 2010
Jennifer Grotz
A poetry reading
Co-sponsored by New England Review, the Breadloaf Writers' Conference and Cook Commons.
April 15th 2010
Lauret Savoy
Provenance Notes: Readings and Reflections on Nature Writing, Race, and Geology
Lauret Savoy is Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies, Mount Holyoake College.
Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies, Geology, and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
March 30th 2010
Michael Mewshaw
The journalist discusses his new book, Between Terror and Terrorism; An Overland Journey Across North Africa.
March 10th 2010
C. K. Williams
The Pulitzer Prize winning poet reads.
January 4th 2010
Steve Mentz
Tasting Salt: Human Bodies and the Oceanic Environment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature
Steve Mentz is Associate Professor of English at St. John's University.
November 5th 2009
David Barber
The poet reads from his collection, Wonder Cabinet.
David Barber is poetry editor of The Atlantic magazine and 2009-10 Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry.