Stealing from Dead Authors?
Esquire asked English professors Jay Parini and Rob Cohen to weigh in on the complicated ethics of posthumous publishing.
Stories
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Prize Poetry
Kellam Ayres, MA English ’07 has been awarded the 2023 Spacks Prize for her forthcoming full-length poetry collection, In the Cathedral of My Undoing.
Largest Largesse
Middlebury has received the largest bequest in its history: $40 million from a member of the Class of 1955.
How to Teach Russian
Three members of the School of Russian faculty and staff had their book recognized by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL) for the best contribution to the study of Slavic linguistics or second language acquisition in 2023.
Apocalyptic Comedy
Baby Carl’s Happy Apocalypse, a podcast from the New Perennials project, takes a comedic approach to serious topics like climate change and socioeconomic inequality.
Language Immersion for Two
Chuck and Vanessa Nicholls both attended the School of Spanish this past summer, exchanging their home for a Milliken Hall suite and doing everything as a couple in Spanish.
Funding for Migrant Justice
A three-year, $1.48 million grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities for All Times initiative will fund new classes and research projects focusing on migrant justice.
Panther for Life
Middlebury Campus sports writer Blaise Siefer ’23.5 reflects fondly on what made Middlebury athletics so special during his time at the College.
Songs Remember
On the Language Schools blog, musician Joe Bruchac wrote about the role of music in transmitting linguistic and cultural knowledge.