Department of English

Journalist, writer, and Middlebury alum Abe Streep will give a short reading and discuss his book Brothers On Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana.
Open to all Middlebury College students.

Zoom link

Virtual Senior Reception
Friday, May 21, 2021, 4:30-5:30 pm ET
Zoom link will be sent to graduates in advance.
Feel free to drop in whenever you like during the hour.

“Nothing is more intimate than your body in the world” – Alice Randall

NY Times bestselling author & activist Alice Randall joins artist & Middlebury scholar-in-residence Carolyn Finney for a conversation where they give up the “t” on the intimate experience of being a black body on a green and imperiled planet. 

Join them as they go off the beaten path to dig into self-care, allyship, Black possibility and the art of living. 

What would a Black Walden Pond look like? 

Pamela Erens is the author of the novels Eleven Hours, The Virgins, and The Understory. She has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Eleven Hours, Erens’s most recent novel, was named a best book of the year by Kirkus, NPR, The New Yorker, Literary Hub, and the Irish Independent. Erens’s essays and criticism have appeared in venues such as Vogue, Elle, The New York Times, Slate, Virg

“To be, or not to be, I there’s the point.”
Actors’ Voices in the 1603 first edition of Hamlet?

Jack Ewing, Germany correspondent for The New York Times and author of “Faster, Higher, Farther: How One of the World’s Largest Automakers Committed a Massive and Stunning Fraud” (W.W. Norton 2017), explains how a win-at-all-costs company culture made a mockery of Volkswagen’s claims to be environmentally conscious—and why Volkswagen is a cautionary tale for any corporation striving to be socially responsible.

Henry Burnett ‘18.5, Kelsie Hoppes ‘18.5, and Will Simpson ‘18.5 will present their senior theses for which they conducted overseas research funded by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Summer Research Grants.

Inspired by the Canterbury Tales, representatives from the London-based group “Refugee Tales” walk in solidarity with Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigration Detainees, reclaiming the landscape of South East England for the language of welcome. Representatives from the group will present their project, discuss their call for the end of indefinite detention in the United Kingdom, and read the published tales of refugees with whom and for whom group walk.

This is part of the RCGA Annual Conference “Anxieties of Empire: New Contexts, Shifting Perspectives”

10:00 a.m. –12:00 p.m.
Session 2: Epistemology and Imperial Reproduction
• The Populist West: Critical subjectivity and the politics of counter-terrorism in Nigeria: Temitope Ogungbemi, McPherson University, Nigeria
• Examining the Co-production of the “Imperial” University in Lahore and New York City: Mariam Durrani, Hamilton College
• Empire’s Anxiety and Indigeneity: Recent American studies critiques of U.S. empire: Max Clayton, Yale University