Department of English

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.

Mahaney Arts Center, Room 232

Presented as part of the international arts exchange and residency by ONE STEP AT A TIME LIKE THIS, Michole Biancosino, Associate Professor of Theatre, hosts a lunch time conversation with West End and Broadway producer, Richard Jordan. 

What do we mean when we talk about ecodramaturgy? How can we connect the ancient art of dramatic storytelling to our current climate moment?

Join Professor Dan Brayton and members of Australia’s one step at a time like this theatre company for this round table and talk about connections between the work of William Shakespeare and climate.

Sponsored by the Department of English and Department of Theatre, with support by Middlebury Performing Arts Council, Climate Action Program, and The Chocolate Milkshake Fund.

Australia’s award-winning company, one step at a time like this, comes to Middlebury for a special arts exchange. In this talk, they will discuss some of their various international projects and the processes they use to make their work that employs an “expanded notion of theatre.” Led by visiting artists Suzanne Kersten, Clair Korobacz, and Julian Rickert.

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.

Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing, Jay Parini, will read from his poetry collections, old and new.

Remarks and awards for English and Creative Writing department seniors and their families.

This event was rescheduled from February 20th. 

Join us for a reading by two members of the Middlebury College community in celebration of their debut books.

Middlebury alums Dan O’Brien and J. M. Tyree return to the College having earned acclaim in creative writing since they began sharing their work with one another over thirty years ago as undergraduates. They are currently press-mates: Tyree has recently published his novella, The Haunted Screen with Deep Vellum, and O’Brien has published a memoir, From Scarsdale: A Childhood, and a collection of his plays, True Story: A Trilogy, with Dalkey Archive Press, an imprint of Deep Vellum.

Alice Kaplan, Sterling Professor of French, is a specialist of 20^th century France.  She works at the intersection of literature and history, using a method that allies archival research with textual analysis.  She is also a literary translator.