Commons Heads Will Nash & Deb Evans
Will Nash joined the Middlebury faculty in 1995, Deb Evans in 1996. Nash is director of African-American studies and a member of the American Studies Program. His book, Charles Johnson's Fiction (2002), treats the works of contemporary African-American novelist Charles Johnson. He is currently studying black Chicago artists' responses to the political and social upheavals of the 1960s. Nash teaches courses on representations of race in American literature and culture and courses on 19th- and 20th-century American literature. This fall Will teaches one of the Wonnacott first Year Seminars on Blues in American Culture; he welcome a chance to teach a course that combines two of his greatest passions.
After teaching in the Writing Program, Deb Evans joined what is now the American Studies Program and the Department of English and American Literature. Her current project is a study of representations of white-Native American interracial unions in 19th-century American literature. She regularly teaches courses on regionalism and on gender in American literature; this fall she teaches ENAM 206, Nineteenth Century American Literature, featuring all the greats (Poe, Emerson, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, etc, and a few of the lesser knowns to keep things interesting).
Deb, Will, and their daughter Hadley moved to the Wonnacott Commons Head residence in July 2004. Hadley, seven, begins second grade this fall and is an avid Middlbury ice hockey fan with an artistic soul. You'll see her art work and hear her song stylings when she visits the Wonnacott office; although she is a devotee of musicals, she is first and foremost a fan of her father's faculty band, The Doughboys.
