Department of English

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.

Since retiring from teaching English Literature in Italian universities, Bill Dodd has lived in a small village in Tuscany surrounded by oak forests. He divides his time between writing poetry and laboring with his wife on her flower farm, enjoying encounters with the many creatures who visit them there. He will be reading from his collection of poems, Sightings.

Before coming to Middlebury Khalid graduated from Eaglebrook and Loomis Chaffee; after Middlebury he served with Teach for America in Mississippi; then taught at Amistad Academy, a renowned charter school in New Haven, Connecticut. He will be receiving his M.A. in Education from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education in the coming months. At Taft, Khalid teaches four sections of English and works with the debate team.