Online Academic Resources

The BLSE program brings critical, creative, and pedagogical approaches to bear on literary study – with the aim of cultivating the imagination and the interpretive and expressive powers that come with it. Below are resources that you can draw on as you chart your own path through the summer. See the BLSE Student Handbook for information on academic policies.   

Individual and Group Tutorial Meetings

• Your professor will work with you to establish a schedule of regular meetings across the summer terms. BLSE classes can and, at our campuses, do meet on July 4.
• Tutorial attendance is mandatory, except in cases of illness or emergency. Please notify your professor if you need to miss a meeting for these reasons.
• All work is due by the final day of the tutorial.

Advising

• BLSE director Lyndon Dominique and dean Emily Bartels serve year-round as your advisors and can help you with long-term and short-term planning.
• Lyndon oversees the online program and is available across the session to meet with you to discuss any aspect of your summer or BLSE experiences.
• On July 14, 3:30 -4:30 EDT, Lyndon will hold a mid-session Zoom meeting for all students currently in the online program 

Co-Curricular Events

To complement the work you’re doing in your tutorials, we will live-stream select events from the Vermont campus, as we can. Those events will be highlighted in the events calendar in BreadWeb. 

Library / Research Resources

You have access to digital research materials via the Middlebury College library. See Middlebury’s off-campus resources.       

Bread Loaf Teacher Network (BLTN)

The Bread Loaf Teacher Network, headed by director Beverly Moss, supports teachers year-round as they engage with peers on designing and implementing innovative culturally- and community-based pedagogies – working across differences to foster advanced literacy skills, social justice, and social change. For more information the BLTN website.