English & American Literatures ENAM

poster for The Narrative Journalism Fellowship Listening Event

"How did you get here?"

Sponsored by:
Department of English
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.

Axinn Center Winter Garden

Book covers that says, "Reading the Glass"

Elliot Rappaport Reading

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

Axinn Center 229

Open to the Public
Book cover of 'Brothers on Three' by Abe Streep. Text reads: 'A true story of family, resistance, and hope on a reservation in Montana.' Background is a photograph of a group of people playing basketball, silhouetted against a dusk sky.

Author Talk by Abe Streep '04 about Brothers on Three

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.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public

The Toughest Teenager in Flint: the making of the first female Olympic gold medal boxer

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.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

Open to the Public

Sophomore Seminar Poster Session

Sponsored by:
Department of English
Student from this fall’s Sophomore Seminar in the Liberal Arts will present their posters depicting what they have learned about “What is the Good Life, and How Do I Live It?” Refreshments will be served.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall Tormondsen Great Hall

Open to the Public

Sophomore Poster Session

Sponsored by:
Department of English
Sophomore Seminar in the Liberal Arts Poster Presentation Students in the course titled “What is the Good Life, and How do I Live it?” reflect on their work this semester. Open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall Tormondsen Great Hall

Open to the Public