Center for Teaching, Learning and Research

Have you considered applying to graduate school in the UK? Join Dean Lisa Gates for a discussion of how to apply for a British scholarship and what makes an ideal candidate. The deadline for the British nomination application is April 7, 2019. Detailed information is available at go.middlebury.edu/fellowships.

What happens to our reading of literature if the role of the paratext (the ancillary materials surround texts), instead of the text, is foregrounded? Using Edward Said’s notion of the contrapuntal, I discuss how digital modes of analysis facilitate a concurrent process of close and distant readings of paratexts in Arabic-to-English translations. Digital analysis brings to the surface power dynamics—in terms of gender, colonialism, and other key topics—buried in paratexts such as glossaries. Lunch will be served. Suggested readings and please sign up at url for event.

A two-day symposium to kickoff the DLA project Atlantic World Forum: Reimagining the Online Scholarly Roundtable, Reshaping the Global Digital Humanities, Reframing Circum-Atlantic Cultural Histories.

Find all of the symposium schedule here: http://awf.middcreate.net/category/program-schedule/

A two-day symposium to kickoff the DLA project Atlantic World Forum: Reimagining the Online Scholarly Roundtable, Reshaping the Global Digital Humanities, Reframing Circum-Atlantic Cultural Histories.

Find all of the symposium schedule here: http://awf.middcreate.net/category/program-schedule/

In the past, many faculty have surveyed their students about how individual classes are unfolding. Such an assessment seems more significant than ever given all of the new modalities and experimentations in play this fall. Please join your colleagues for a discussion of how to assess your classes halfway through this semester and then how to respond to what you have learned. Jim Ralph of CTLR and Heather Stafford of DLINQ will co-moderate this session.
Sponsored by the Center for Teaching, Learning & Research

The Writing and Rhetoric Program (WRPR) and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research (CTLR) welcome Frankie Condon for a workshop on anti-racist pedagogies. In the workshop, Condon will get more hands on about anti-racist teaching practices, and specifically invites participants to bring questions, assignments and/or projects to discuss. An open lecture will be given at 3 pm. The workshop registration is limited to 25.

Digitizing Folk Music History Artist in Residence Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Middlebury College Professor of Music Peter Hamlin explore the relationship between analog and digital technologies of storytelling, facilitated by Digitizing Folk Music History professor Michael J.

In this session, Jim Berg (ENAM, FYS) and Shawna Shapiro (WRPR, LNGT) will discuss how they respond to students at various phases in the writing process. We will share activities and tools that can be used during or outside of class, by both instructors and peers. We will also address common questions, such as: What kinds of response are most useful to students? How can I respond in a timely and efficient way? How can I encourage students to transfer what they learn from one assignment into the next?

As educators, we know that challenges make learning last, and so we bake them into our teaching in big ways and small. Do the challenges, questions, and problems we pose to our students involve all the essential components for deep learning and growth? Are they building critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication skills as well as deep content knowledge?

With the Commons system coming to an end, there is an opportunity to reassess the role of faculty in the life of the College beyond the academic realm. What channels and resources should be available for faculty to interact with students? Should the faculty consider a more ambitious advising program? Should there be greater acknowledgment of the work that faculty do beyond their teaching and scholarship?