English & Creative Writing Thesis Student Reading
- Sponsored by:
- Department of English and Creative Writing
Senior English majors will read excerpts from their critical and creative writing senior theses.
Department of English
English & American Literatures
ENAM
Robert Glück: New Narrative, A Reading and Q&A
- Sponsored by:
- Department of English and Creative Writing
Author and New Narrative co-founder Robert Glück will present a reading from his fiction.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
Exploring Careers in Communications with Devon O’Neil '01
- Sponsored by:
- Athletic Department, Environmental Studies, Psychology, Department of English, and Center for Careers & Internships
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.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series
- Sponsored by:
- Environmental Studies and Department of English
“Which Side Are You On?” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Garret Keizer, Writer.
The issue of environmental justice assayed from a viewpoint both leftishly biased and locally based. Questions raised: Why has “environmentalist” become a dirty word? What are the limits of environmentalism under capitalism? For whom will you be working ten years from now? Will you be working at all?
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Visiting Creative Writing Faculty Reading
- Sponsored by:
- Creative Writing and Department of English
Visiting creative writing faculty members Chukwuebuka Ibeh and Lucy Ives will read from their work.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
English & Creative Writing Thesis Student Reading
- Sponsored by:
- Department of English and Creative Writing
Senior English majors will read excerpts from their critical and creative writing senior theses.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
A podcast listening event from The Migrant's Journey: making a home in the Green Moutain State
- Sponsored by:
- Department of English
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.)
McCullough - Mitchell Green Lounge
Axinn Center Commencement 2026 Departmental Reception
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
Axinn Center
Reading & Discussion with Willie Carver
- Sponsored by:
- American Studies and Department of English
Reading and discussion with Willie Carver, author of Gay Poems for Red States and Tore All to Pieces. Q & A to follow.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
Alumni Reading: Middlebury’s Own Benjamin Ehrlich (’09) and Devon Jersild
- Sponsored by:
- Creative Writing and Department of English
Benjamin Ehrlich (Middlebury, class of 2009) is the author of THE BRAIN IN SEARCH OF ITSELF (Farrar, Straus and G
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)