Arts, Language, Culture

198 Items

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   Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences,  Academic Excellence,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Faculty

   Award-Winning Translation

   Jennifer Grotz, director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, has won a PEN America Literary Award for poetry in translation.

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   2000s,  Middlebury College,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture

   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.

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   2010s,  Middlebury Institute of International Studies,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Identity

   French Connections

   Growing up between two countries led to an interest in serving international students for Carol Lin, MAIEM ’18.

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   2010s,  Language Schools,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture

   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.

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   Language Schools,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Politics & Government

   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.

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   2000s,  Bread Loaf School of English,  Arts, Language, Culture

   Words of Undoing

   Guernica magazine recently published a poem by Kellam Ayres, MA English ’07. You can read or listen to “Tenement” online.

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   1990s,  Middlebury College,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture

   Where the Cat Is Queen

   Jessie Raymond ’90 waxes both lyrical and exasperated about the former barn cat that rules her house in her Addison Independent humor column.

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   2000s,  Middlebury College,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture

   Righteous Gemstones

   Cassidy Freeman ’04 talks about playing a devoted, firearms-toting wife in a televangelist family on HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones.

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   Language Schools,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture,  Identity

   An Opera Premiere

   German School attendee Kazem Abdullah will take the conductor’s podium this fall at the world premiere of the opera Castor and Patience, commissioned by the Cincinnati Opera.

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    2010s,  Middlebury College,  Alumni,  Arts, Language, Culture

    Democracy on Plate Glass

    Em White ’12 is a photographer who uses an 1800s camera to capture contemporary images on plate glass.