Past Events

Join journalist Devon O’Neil ’01 for a presentation on reporting, writing, and following a non-linear career path as he discusses his award-winning 2025 book The Way Out: A true story of survival in the Heart of the Rockies. O’Neil, a psychology major at Middlebury, has been a daily newspaperman, a staff writer at ESPN, and a correspondent at Outside Magazine — as well as a construction worker, counterterrorism analyst, and backcountry hutmaster. He’ll detail how his time at Middlebury led to a life at 10,200 feet in Colorado and beyond. 

Visiting creative writing faculty members Chukwuebuka Ibeh and Lucy Ives will read from their work.

Please join the departments of American Studies, Classics and Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Film and Media Culture, History, Literary Studies, and Religion for a reception celebrating graduates in these disciplines.

The following departments invite grads and their guests to join them in the locations listed below.

English | AXN 232 | 3:30-4:15 pm

Religion | AXN 220 | 3:30-4:15 pm

History | Abernethy Room (AXN 221) | 3:30-5:00 pm

Film and Media Culture | AXN 229 | 3:30-5:30 pm

American Studies | American Studies Conference Room | 4:45-5:30 pm

Classics and Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Literary Studies | AXN 232 | 4:45-5:30 pm

Senior English majors will read excerpts from their critical and creative writing senior theses.

The Migrant’s Journey class presents their podcast, a series of stories about making a home in the Green Mountain State. (Refreshments will be served.)

Dan Chiasson, biographer of Bernie Sanders, will be in discussion with Professor Megan Mayhew-Bergman. He will read from his new book and take questions from the audience.

Benjamin Ehrlich (Middlebury, class of 2009) is the author of THE BRAIN IN SEARCH OF ITSELF (Farrar, Straus and G

Reading and discussion with Willie Carver, author of Gay Poems for Red States and Tore All to Pieces. Q & A to follow.

Join us for a work-in-progress showing that is part of a January term residency and arts exchange with the Australian theatre company, One Step at a Time Like This, centering Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, climate, theatre, and interdisciplinary methods in storytelling and performance. 

This residency culminates with a new site-specific work, ALL THE WAYS WITHOUT YOU, set in and around Wright Theatre.

Join us for a work-in-progress showing that is part of a January term residency and arts exchange with the Australian theatre company, One Step at a Time Like This, centering Shakespeare, eco-dramaturgy, climate, theatre, and interdisciplinary methods in storytelling and performance. 

This residency culminates with a new site-specific work, ALL THE WAYS WITHOUT YOU, set in and around Wright Theatre.