Arts, Language, Culture

2020s, Language Schools, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture

Rome Prize Winner

Italian School alum Shannah Rose has been awarded a Rome Prize in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.

2020s, Middlebury College, Arts, Language, Culture, Faculty

Mirror to the Gods

The ancient Maya viewed cracked mirrors and hallucinogenic rituals as ways to commune with supernatural beings, as anthropology professor James Fitzsimmons explains in The Conversation.

1970s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture

50 Years a Potter

Christine Lansdale Willis, who matriculated with the class of 1977, is exhibiting art from her 50-year ceramics career at the Center for the Study of Modern Ceramics in Athens, Greece.

A woman in a red coat stands on a city street holding two large signs that read 'FREE HELP' in bold red letters, offering assistance to passersby. The woman in the image is Bianca Giaever, Middlebury College Class of 2012.

2000s, 2010s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Equity & Justice, Experience

Help from a Stranger

The New York Times followed Bianca Giaever ’12 around NYC while she tried to offer free help to strangers.

1980s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience

Playwright Rob Ackerman ’80 spoke to 411 Mania about getting back into filmmaking as the cowriter and producer of Stargazer, a dramedy about a young woman’s quest to revive the reputation of a forgotten astronomer whose work was stolen by her male colleagues.

Illustration of people forming "ABC" with their bodies

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

Active Abecedary

ABC and You and Me, a playful picture book written and illustrated by Corinna Luyken ’00, is a 2024 Blue Ribbon Selection by Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

Student practicing their language skills

2020s, Middlebury College, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience, Students

Global Perspective in Local Schools

The Language in Motion program gets local K–12 students curious about exploring world languages and cultures through classroom visits and special events led by College students and language department teaching assistants.

1980s, 2010s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture

Ghosts and Secrets

Two new novels by alumnae depict characters trying to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

2020s, Bread Loaf School of English, Language Schools, Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Equity & Justice, Identity

New in Kids’ Lit

Two alumni have written children’s books that address cultural differences and migration.

2020s, Middlebury College, Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Faculty

Stealing from Dead Authors?

Esquire asked English professors Jay Parini and Rob Cohen to weigh in on the complicated ethics of posthumous publishing.