Road Trip with a Writer
Take another look (or a first one) at English professor Jay Parini’s “novelized memoir,” Borges and Me.
Stories
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Podcast for Panther Fans
Want to keep up with Panther sports news? Panthers for Life (PFL) Weekly is a student-run, Middlebury-focused podcast about the top sports stories of the week.
Searching for Home in Exile
Sajia Yaqouby ’25.5 is one of the eight new BOLD-SOLA Leadership Scholars who were evacuated from Afghanistan last August and are beginning their studies at the College.
Translating the Self
In this Middlebury Magazine essay, Clara Clymer MAT ’22 explores how moving to France to improve her language skills led to personal and professional self-discovery.
Moscow, Interrupted
Julian Gonzales-Poirier ’23 talked to VPR about the scramble to end his study abroad experience and leave Moscow after Russia invaded Ukraine.
Award-Winning Translation
Jennifer Grotz, director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, has won a PEN America Literary Award for poetry in translation.
Antler Boom
Every spring, shed hunters head to the woods looking for deer and elk antlers that may fetch thousands of dollars or social media fame.
Taiwan-China Tensions
Chinese School attendee Bonnie Glaser offers her take on China-Taiwan relations and the potential impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the CBS News podcast Intelligence Matters.
Pandemic-Era Dissertation
Rebecca Glasberg’s MA French ’15 dissertation charts new academic waters in examining representations of Jews and Jewishness in North African postcolonial French-language literature.