Locations

Find your place at Bread Loaf - in Vermont, Oxford, Swarthmore, or through our online tutorial options. Each summer, discover new kinds and ways of learning at any of our three distinctive campuses or from your own location. You can enroll at different sites in different summers. We expect degree candidates to attend the Vermont campus for at least one summer. 

Bread Loaf/Vermont

Bread Loaf/Vermont, the main campus, is located in the Green Mountain National Forest, near Middlebury College.

The program enrolls about 260 students and offers our broadest curriculum. Home to the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble and a full-scale letterpress operation, the campus integrates opportunities to learn from actors and on-site master printers. Activities include Friday workshops and film nights headed by faculty, outdoor excursions, dances, live music and sports, and readings and panels.

Students have access to the Middlebury College campus and its resources.

Bread Loaf/Oxford

Based at Lincoln College and centrally located within the city and University of Oxford, Bread Loaf/Oxford enrolls approximately 75 students.

The curriculum consists of one double-credit course requiring extensive independent research, as well as seminars and one-on-one tutorials for collective and individual work. Students have access to the Bodleian Library, the finest research library in the world.

Activities include lectures by renowned Oxford faculty, class and school excursions to London and Stratford theaters, and trips to nearby country houses and museums.

Bread Loaf/Swarthmore

Located at Swarthmore College in the greater Philadelphia area, Bread Loaf’s Swarthmore campus is home to its intensive, three-week Summer Institute for Engaged Humanities.

The program features small-group, double-credit tutorials and interdisciplinary, experiential investigation of the intersection of humanities with the public sphere.

Bread Loaf/Swarthmore enrolls approximately 40-50 students.