Department of English

Shaun King is a writer and civil rights activist noted for his use of social media to promote religious, charitable, and social causes, including the Black Lives Matter movement. The title of his talk is “Why we have to say black lives matter”.

Sponsored by Meet the Press and The Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity

Meet the Press: Join Ryan D’Agostino ‘97, editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics magazine and former articles editor at Esquire, as he talks about his journey through the New York media landscape.

Lecture by George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

David Austin is the author of Fear of A Black Nation: Race ,Sex and Security in Sixties Montreal winner of the 2014 Casas De Las America and winner of the silver medal at the 2014 Independent Mr. Austin has produced documentaries on Frantz Fanon and CLR James for CBC Radio’s Ideas .

Meet the Press presents Eric Bates, Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic Magazine :Journalism vs. Trump: The Media as Opposition Party

Dan O’Brien, award-winning playwright and poet, is author of the play “The Body of an American,” poetry collections “War Reporter” and “Scarsdale,” and two opera libretti. He graduated from Middlebury College majoring in English and Theater, received an MFA at Brown University, and has taught and done residencies at many institutions including Princeton, Williamstown Theater Festival, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He lives in Los Angeles.

Senior Reception for the Department of English & American Literatures

Senior Reception for the Department of English & American Literatures

Creating Connections Consortium (C3) Diversity Research and Teaching Summit. Scholars from Connecticut and Williams Colleges will join Middlebury faculty and postdoctoral fellows to discuss field-leading research across the liberal arts and innovative teaching pedagogy.

Brittany Cavallaro ’09 published her prize-winning first collection of poems, “Girl-King”, earlier this year, and her first young adult novel, “A Study in Charlotte”, will appear in 2016. She won a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship in 2014, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.