Reading List for Black History Month
In celebration of Black History Month, we’ve compiled a list of Black authors connected to Middlebury that we hope you’ll check out.
Stories
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Sonic Art
What began as an attempt by Assistant Professor Matthew Evan Taylor to collaborate with fellow musicians during the isolation of the pandemic ended up being a yearlong project that culminated in an evening performance at the Met.
Demystifying Data
Middlebury plans to make data science a fundamental part of a liberal arts education. A new initiative, midd.data, will ensure all students understand and can use data and digital tools and techniques to create knowledge, regardless of their majors.
Jay Parini on Literature, Learning, and Loving Vermont
Jay Parini sits for an interview to discuss his years of teaching and writing while at Middlebury College.
Another First for Twilight
The Vermont Statehouse recently unveiled a portrait of Alexander Twilight, Class of 1823, the first person of African descent to serve in a state legislature and to graduate from a U.S. college.
Returning Stolen Art
The Middlebury College Museum of Art is doing the best job in the country “after the Met, the National Gallery and RISD Museum” in the repatriation of Benin art to West Africa, reports the Washington Post.
Killer Reads
Jody Smith and Joseph Watson found four poisonous books in the College Special Collections that contain arsenic.
Pluses for Polyglots
Stephen Snyder, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the Language Schools, spoke to the Houston Chronicle about the many benefits of speaking more than one language.
The New York Times Presents
Stephanie Preiss ’11 is an executive producer on The New York Times Presents docuseries, which presents in-depth reporting on such matters as Britney Spears’s conservatorship, the killing of Breonna Taylor, and coronavirus frontline workers.