Department of English

Acclaimed author Emily St. John Mandel will bring her work and perspectives to Middlebury College in this special reading, Q&A and book signing. 

 

This event is in-person and open to the public.

Can’t make it? A recording will be available February 16-March 1, 2024 at https://vimeo.com/911642948

Password: EmilyMidd2024

 

The line between wellness and illness seems thick, well drawn, and impermeable. We believe ourselves, and others, to be firmly situated on one side or the other. But that is not true. We all come to realize this about physical illness. We come to realize that eventually it will touch and alter our lives, either through our own direct experience or that of a loved one. So, we begin to learn the language of cancer, of Alzheimer’s, of Parkinson’s. What of mental illness, though?

Poets Emily Lee Luan (‘15), Leslie Sainz (Managing Editor, New England Review), and Margaret Ray (‘07) will read from their new collections. More information can be found on the English Department events webpage.

On Thursday May 4th, from 4:30-6:00 in the Axinn lobby (near the waterfall), Middlebury’s 2022-2023 Narrative Journalism Fellowship will be hosting a listening event open to everyone. Pizza and refreshments will be provided. The event will be held in a gallery style fashion, so feel free to come at any time between 4:30 and 6:00 to listen to the podcasts.

Poets Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris will read from their work.

The Vermont Book Shop will have books available for purchase.

 

Please refer to the English Department’s events page for more information.

Sea Captain Eliot Rappaport will read from his new book Reading the Glass: A Captain’s View of Weather, Water and Life on Ships.

Screening and discussion of The Battle of Algiers

Award-winning journalist Abe Streep (‘04) will be in conversation with esteemed sports writer, Alexander Wolff to discuss his first book, Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana (Celadon Books, 2021). The book follows the boys basketball team from Arlee High School as they defend their state championship. Streep reports on the place of basketball in the lives of members of the Flathead Reservation’s Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

Lecture “ ‘Theater in South Asia: Shakespeare on the Hindi Stage” by Kanchan Verma, Assistant Professor of Hindi, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.

In 2012 at the age of 15, against all odds, Claressa Shields from Flint, Michigan, won the first Olympic gold medal in women’s boxing. Come watch “T-Rex,” the award-winning film about Shields and talk with the filmmaker, Sue Jaye Johnson about the making of the film, about Flint, and about the young woman who has proved herself, in and out of the ring, to be the world’s fiercest teenager.