After an early breakfast in which he writes and organizes his tasks and goals for the day, Roddy heads out on a trail run along some of the more than 50 km of Nordic ski paths surrounding the Bread Loaf campus, to the Robert Frost interpretive trail down the road, or to a nearby mountain like Moosalamoo.
Roddy volunteers as a peer editor at Bread Loaf’s Writing Center; here, he works with a fellow student on an essay for a Bread Loaf class.
Roddy pauses on his way to the library to chat with a friend.
In the cozy Bread Loaf library, Roddy does some reading before his afternoon class.
Roddy captures an intriguing point during his Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Poetry, Religion, and American Folk Music class. As a guitarist and songwriter himself, Roddy was drawn to this multidisciplinary course.
In the Performance and Dramaturgy course, students both observe and act in the summer’s major production (in summer 2023, William Shakespeare’s Tempest). Though theater is one of his favorite units to teach, Roddy had not studied theatrical performance until taking this course. He appreciated the opportunity to study a play from the angle of a creator rather than a consumer, learning much about how to approach a text through discussion of methods of adaptation and textual analysis as well as issues of acting, directing, and staging practice.
Here, Roddy and other members of the cast prepare to enter stage during a rehearsal of the Tempest.
