Faculty and Staff Authors Honored

Middlebury College faculty and staff who published books in 2024 were honored at a reception on May 14 in the Axinn Center Winter Garden. Each of the authors offered a brief description about the origins of their books. The featured books represented a broad range of academic disciplines across the arts and sciences.

Following is a list of faculty and staff whose works were published in 2024:

Molly Anderson, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Food Studies: Transforming food systems: Narratives of power. Routledge.

Kellam Ayres, library liaison and open education specialist: In the cathedral of my undoing: Poems. Gunpowder Press.

Cates Baldridge, Philip Battell and Sarah F. Cowles Stewart Professor of English: Plowswords: Literature and the agricultural trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee. University of Virginia Press.

Mez Baker-Médard, associate professor of environmental studies: Feminist conservation: Politics and power in Madagascar’s marine commons. Yale University Press.

Lorraine Besser, department chair, professor of philosophy: The art of the interesting: What we miss in our pursuit of the good life and how to cultivate it. Balance.

Timothy Billings, professor of English: Twenty-nine goodbyes: An introduction to Chinese poetry. Fordham University Press.

Matthew Dickerson, professor of computer science:  Aslan’s Breath. Square Halo Books.

Guntram Herb, professor of geography & international and global studies, Sujata Moorti, college professor, Kemi Fuentes-George, associate professor of political science: Middlebury Atlas of Globalization. Langenscheidt.

Carolyn Kuebler, editor, New England Review: Liquid, fragile, perishable. Melville House.

Jason Mittell, professor of film and media culture: The chemistry of character in Breaking Bad: A videographic book. Lever Press.

Olga Sanchez Saltveit, assistant professor of theatre and Noe Montez (editors): The Routledge companion to Latine theatre and performance. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Marybeth Nevins, associate professor of anthropology: Lessons from Fort Apache: Beyond language endangerment and maintenance (new edition). University of Nebraska Press.

Matthew Quayle, visiting assistant professor of music: Woodwind chamber music. Centaur Records.

Pete Schumer, Baldwin Professor of Mathematics & Natural Philosophy: Fractions: A sliver of the story. Oxford University Press.

Gloria Estela González Zenteno, Jean Thompson Fulton Professor of Modern Languages and Literature: La máscara invisible. Textofilia.