English & American Literatures ENAM

Exploding Canons: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Caribbean Poetic-Political Tradition

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 .

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 219

Open to the Public

Dan O'Brien, reading from his poetry

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.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Open to the Public

C3 Diversity Summit

Sponsored by:
Department of English
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.

Axinn Center 104

Closed to the Public

Brittany Cavallaro Reading from her Work

Sponsored by:
Department of English
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.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Free
Open to the Public

Bill Dodd Poetry Reading

Sponsored by:
Department of English
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.

Axinn Center 219

Free
Open to the Public

Thinking of Teaching? A Discussion with Khalid Tellis, ’13

Sponsored by:
Department of English
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.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)