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.

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.

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.

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.

Bill Dodd presents an examination of original Shakespearean texts—so-called “bad quartos” printed during Shakespeare’s lifetime—for fascinating traces of original theatrical practices.