Bread Loaf School of English catalog, 2001

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by  Bread Loaf School of English

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Spend
Bread Loaf
chool of English
2001 Summer Programs
PLEASE ADDRESS
CORRESPONDENCE TO:
JOHN M. McCARDELL, JR.
President of Middlebury Ms. Elaine Lathrop
College Bread Loaf School of English
Freeman International Center
JAMES H. MADDOX Middlebury College
Dean of Graduate and Special Middlebury,VT 05753
Programs and Director of the Telephone: [phone]
Bread Loaf School of English Fax: [phone]
(through June 15)
EMILY BARTELS Summer fax: [phone]
Associate Director of the Bread (June 19-August 11)
Loaf School of English E-mail:
[email protected]
KEVIN DUNN Web page:
On-Site Director of Bread Loaf www.blse.middlebury.edu
in Alaska
Front cover photo by Edward Brown
Other photographs by Edward Brown
JOHN WARNOCK
Middlebury College complies with
On-Site Director of Bread Loaf applicable provisions ofs tate and fed-
in New Mexico eral law which prohibit discrimination
in employment or in admission or
access to its educational or extracurric-
JOHN FYLER ular programs, activities, or facilities, on
On-Site Director of Bread Loaf the basis of race, color, ethnicity,
at Lincoln College, Oxford national origin, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, age, marital status, place
ofb irth, Vietnam veteran status, or
against qualified individuals with dis-
abilities on the basis ofd isability.
BREAD LOAF STAFF
Because of varying circumstances and
legal requirements, such provisions
may not apply to programs offered by
Dianne Baroz
the College outside the United States.
Judy Jessup
This is consistent with the College's
Elaine Lathrop
intent to comply with the require-
Sandy LeGault ments of applicable law. Individuals
with questions about the policies gov-
erning such programs should direct
inquiries to James Maddox.
This publication was printed on
recycled paper.
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Bread Loaf
School of English
2001 Summer Programs
THE AIM
Each summer the Bread Loaf School aorses, proprietor of the local news-
of English assembles a community of paper, and spirited lover of nature.
teachers and learners at each of its r. Battell acquired large landhold-
four campuses: the Bread Loaf ings, tract by tract, starting in 1866,
Mountain campus in Vermont; Lincoln until several mountains were among
College, Oxford, in the United us properties. In this striking setting,
Kingdom; the Institute of American Mr. Battell constructed the Bread
Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Loaf Inn and other buildings to
Mexico; and the University of Alaska aouse his summer guests. Modern
Southeast near Juneau. Students at improvements and the addition of
each of these campuses follow cours- several buildings have enhanced the
es of study leading to the Master of charm and conveniences of the orig-
Arts and Master of Letters degrees in inal inn and the surrounding “cot-
English. The Bread Loaf emphasis tages,” but the nineteenth-century
has always been upon close contact structures in their Green Mountain
between teacher and student in an site still make an unforgettable
intensive six-week course of study. impression.
The Bread Loaf School of During the last 81 years, Bread
English in Vermont is one of 10 Loaf has counted among its faculty
summer programs of Middlebury members such distinguished teachers
College. Others are the Language and scholars as George K. Anderson,
Schools of Arabic, Chinese, French, Carlos Baker, Harold Bloom, Cleanth
German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Brooks, Reuben Brower, Donald
and Spanish, and the Bread Loaf Davidson, Elizabeth Drew, A. Bartlett
Writers’ Conference. Middlebury Giamatti, Laurence B. Holland, A.
College offers no graduate program Walton Litz, Perry Miller, Martin
in English during the regular acade- Price, John Crowe Ransom, Donald
mic year. Staufter, and Wylie Sypher. But no
The original mountain-and- one has been identified with Bread
forest area in which the School of Loaf more indelibly than has Robert
English is located was willed to Frost, who first came to the School
Middlebury College in 1915 by on the invitation of Dean Wilfred
Joseph Battell, breeder of Morgan Davison in 1921. Friend and neigh-
bor to Bread Loaf, Frost returned to The Bread Loaf School of English
the School every summer, with but enrolls about 80 students at Lincoln
three exceptions, for 42 years. His College, Oxford, each summer.
influence is still felt, in part because Bread Loaf has exclusive use of the
Middlebury College owns and accommodations of Lincoln College
maintains the Robert Frost Farm as during the summer session, so that
a national historic site near the Bread the School of English has its own
Loaf campus. identity. Located on the Turl in the
center of the city of Oxford, Lincoln
The Bread Loaf School of English at is one of the smallest and most beau-
Bread Loaf, Vermont tiful of the Oxford colleges.
JUNE 26-AuGusT 11, 2001 Each student selects one seminar
as a two-unit (six semester hours)
(see the back page for a complete schedule summer program. There are usually
for all four campuses) from four to six students in each
Since 1920, the central location for seminar, which meets in a manner
these programs of study has been the determined by the tutor. For example,
campus located outside Middlebury, the tutor may meet all students togeth-
in sight of Bread Loaf Mountain in er once a week and then in tutorial for
the Green Mountains of Vermont. an hour. Oxford tutors place heavy
Here, faculty members from many of emphasis on independent study; stu-
the most distinguished colleges and dents should expect to give oral reports
universities in the United States and and write weekly papers. Seminars and
the United Kingdom offer courses in tutorials are often held at the college
literature, literary theory, creative with which the tutor is affihated.
writing, the teaching of writing, and
theater arts. Students normally enroll The Bread Loaf School of
in two one-unit (three semester English at the Institute of
hours) courses each summer. All of American Indian Arts, Santa
these courses benefit from the on- Fe, New Mexico
site presence of the Bread Loaf JUNE 26-AucGustT 9, 2001
Acting Ensemble, which visits class-
rooms and, along with actors drawn Bread Loaf offers courses at the
from the student body, appears in Institute of American Indian Arts in
theatrical productions during the Santa Fe, New Mexico. Bread Loaf
summer. Each year, approximately in New Mexico enrolls approxi-
250 students come from all regions mately 70 students and offers a cur-
of the United States and from other riculum similar to those offered at
countries to study at the Bread Loaf the other campuses, but with an
campus. appropriate emphasis upon Ameri-
can Indian literature, American
The Bread Loaf School of Hispanic literature, and writing of
English at Lincoln College, the Southwest. As in Vermont and
Oxford Alaska, students typically enroll in
June 25—Aucust 4, 2001 two one-unit courses.
The Bread Loaf School of Instructions for Application
English at the University of New applicants should fill out and
Alaska Southeast, Juneau, Alaska return the application form and sup-
JUNE 26-AUGUST 9, 2001 porting materials, along with a $50
application fee. Application forms are
Bread Loaf offers a full six-week available from the Bread Loaf office
program at the University of Alaska in Vermont at the address listed
Southeast near Juneau. Bread Loaf in inside the front cover of this bulletin.
Alaska enrolls approximately 75 stu- All undergraduate and graduate
dents and offers a full range of cours- transcripts should be forwarded to
es, similar to those offered at the the Bread Loaf office. The applicant
other campuses. The program also is responsible for securing letters of
takes advantage of Juneau's unique recommendation from teachers with
location; several courses focus on the whom the applicant has studied, col-
literature and landscape of the Pacific leagues, or school administrators.
Northwest and on indigenous cul-
tures. In Alaska alone, students are Credits
able to enroll in three-week courses The normal summer program of
or a full six-week program. Three- study consists of two courses (two
week courses will be offered in the units) at Vermont, New Mexico, and
f
st half of the program, from June Alaska, and one course (two units) at
s
26 through July 17, and in the sec- Oxford. In Alaska students may take
ond half of the program, from July two six-week courses simultaneous-
18 through August 8. ly, two three-week courses sequen-
tially, or a three-week course and a
Admission six-week course. In Vermont, New
Admission is based on college tran- Mexico, and Alaska each course
scripts, letters of recommendation, meets five hours a week. Each one-
and a writing sample. Because the unit course at Bread Loaf receives
program is designed to meet individ- three semester hours (or the equiva-
ual needs, there is no set of requisites lent of four and one-half quarter
for admission, although an excellent hours) of graduate credit. Excep-
undergraduate record in English and tional students may, with permission,
strong recommendations are the take a third course for credit at
surest admission criteria. Students Vermont, New Mexico, or Alaska or
whose work, in the judgment of the an additional tutorial (one unit of
director and of the faculty, is margin- credit) at Oxford, after the first sum-
al and who may have difficulty com- mer. Credits earned toward an M.A
pleting the degree may be denied or M.Litt. at Bread Loaf expire after
readmission in subsequent summers. 10 years.
As Bread Loaf is especially committed to
increasing diversity in its community, The Master of Arts (M.A.) Degree
minority applications are encouraged. Candidates must hold a bachelor’s
degree from an accredited college
and be in residence at least one sum-
3
mer at the Vermont campus.T o earn centration. No thesis is required. In
the M.A., students must successfully the final summer, a student must pass
complete the equivalent of 10 units. a comprehensive written and oral
No thesis is required. A grade of B- examination, or the equivalent, in his
or better is required in order to or her field of concentration. At least
receive course credit. Credits earned one summer must be spent at the
toward an M.A. at Bread Loaf expire Vermont campus. Credits earned
after 10 years. toward an MLitt at Bread Loaf
The curriculum is divided into expire after 10 years.
six groups: (I) writing and the teach-
ing of writing; (II) English literature Program in Continuing
through the seventeenth century; Graduate Education
(III) English literature since the sev- The School allows students not
enteenth century; (IV) American lit- seeking a degree to enroll for a sum-
erature; (V) world literature; (VI) mer in a nondegree status in contin-
theater arts. Ordinarily the M.A. uing {g raduate education. Upon the
program includes a minimum of two student’s successful completion of a
courses each from Groups II and II] summer's study, Middlebury College
and one course each from Groups IV will issue the student a Certificate in
and V.A student may, in consultation Continuing Graduate Education.
with the director, waive one of the
six required courses. Undergraduate Honors Program
Exceptionally able undergraduates
The Master of Letters (M.Litt.) with strong backgrounds in literary
Degree study may be admitted to graduate
The M.Litt. program builds in a con- study at Bread Loaf and may take up
centrated, specialized way on the to two units of course work after the
broader base of the M.A. in English, completion of three years toward
which is a prerequisite for this their bachelor’s degree. Their courses
degree. Students may concentrate, may be transferred to their home
for example, on a period such as the institutions, or they may serve as the ini-
Renaissance, a genre such as the tial credits leading to the M.A. degree at
novel, or a field of study such as the Bread Loaf School of English.
American literature.
The M.Litt. can be earned in The Program in Theater
three to five summers by following a Virtually since its beginning, the
program of 10 courses or Indepen- Bread Loaf School of English in
dent Reading Projects. This program Vermont has put a major emphasis
of studies is drawn up during the upon the theater arts. The Program
students first or second summer in in Theater provides formal and
the degree program, in consultation informal instruction in acting,
with the director and appropriate directing, playwriting, stagecraft, and
members of the faculty. Of these 10 design. While the program is not
courses, up to 3 may be electives not structured as a professional training
fo)
directly related to the field of con- school, it is oriented toward bringing¢
toler te)
students into contact with theater also exist for acting students to
professionals in all fields. A major explore and present longer scenes
aspect of theater study at the Bread and for all interested students to act
Loaf program in Vermont is the pre- in informal presentations in the
sentation of a wide variety of perfor- directing or playwriting workshops.
mance projects.
Financial Aid
Because of the generosity of Bread
Loaf students, faculty, and other
friends of the School of English, the
School has steadily increased its
financial-aid resources. No interested
applicant with strong credentials
should fail to apply because of need.
Financial aid may be in the form
of grants (in Vermont, Oxford, New
Mexico, and Alaska) and/or work-
aid (in Vermont, New Mexico, and
A scene from the 2000 Bread Loaf production
Alaska). The aid is awarded on the
of Naomi lizuka’s new play, 36 Views.
basis of financial need and scholastic
achievement.T o be considered for all
Bread Loaf each year brings pro- types of aid offered through
fessional actors to the Vermont cam- Middlebury College, a student must
pus to assist in mounting the sum- first file a Bread Loaf Financial Aid
ner’s major production; these actors Form with the Middlebury Office of
constitute the Bread Loaf Acting Financial Aid. Requests for aid
EnsembleT.h e Ensemble is intimate- should be made when the applica-
y involved in many of the class-
tion form is submitted to the School:
rooms—not only classes in dramatic all pertinent forms and information
literature, but also classes in other will be sent when they become
orms of literary study and in the
available. Students are advised to
teaching of writing. In recent years, return all completed materials as
najor productions at Bread Loaf soon as possible after they are
have included Alls Well That Ends received.
Well; Endgame; Three Penny Opera; In addition, Bread Loaf offers the
Shakespeare’s Henriad; and, last sum- following scholarships and awards.
mer, 36 Views, a new play by Naomi
lizuka. These productions take place Wallace—Reader’s Digest
in Bread Loafs Burgess Meredith Fellowships for Rural Teachers:
Theater. In 2001, for the ninth and final year,
New plays written by Bread Loaf Bread Loaf will offer full fellowships
students are often produced in the for 25 rural teachers from the fol-
theater on the Vermont campus, as lowing states: Alaska, Arizona, Colo-
are one-acts directed by advanced rado, Georgia, New Mexico, and
directing students. Opportunities Vermont. These fellowships, sup-
ported by a generous grant from the Other Information
Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, will
cover the costs of tuition, room,
board, and travel. The Wallace—
Reader’s Digest Fellows form the
core of the Bread Loaf Teacher
Network. Besides taking a full load
of courses at Bread Loaf, the fellows
also plan follow-up projects among
their home state groups and among
the community of fellows as a
whole. In this final year of this grant,
only returning students are eligible
Students on the porch of the Bread Loaf
to apply for these fellowships.
Inn in Vermont.
Educational Foundation of
America Fellowships for Teach- Independent Reading Projects
ers of Native Students in Alaska, With the approval of the director
Arizona, and New Mexico: and an appropriate member of the
Bread Loaf will offer fellowships to faculty, qualified students may
Alaska teachers of Native Alaskan undertake an Independent Reading
students and to Arizona and New Project, which consists of reading
Mexico teachers who teach in pre- and research during the academic
dominantly American Indian schools year. Students must have taken a
to attend Bread Loaf in Alaska or course at Bread Loaf in the area of
New Mexico. These EFA fellowships their proposed reading project and
will cover tuition, room, board, and have demonstrated their competence
travel up to $5,500. Fellowship by securing a grade of A- or higher
recipients will take a full load of in that course. Arrangements must be
courses at Bread Loaf, receive training in completed during the summer ses-
telecommunications, and will become sion before the academic year in
members of the Bread Loaf Teacher which the reading project is to be
Network. undertaken. Each reading project
culminates in a long essay, a draft of
Other Special Fellowships: which is submitted in early April fol-
State departments of education in lowing the academic year of reading
Alaska, Kentucky, Ohio, and South and research. Students then work
Carolina are generously providing closely with a faculty member in
fellowships for teachers to attend revising and bringing this essay to
Bread Loaf in 2001. completion over the course of the
summer. A reading project success-
To receive more information about fully completed is the equivalent of a
any of these special fellowships, write regular Bread Loaf course. A tuition
to James Maddox, director, at the fee of $1,550 is charged for each
Bread Loaf School of English office. reading project.
Independent Summer Reading the ensuing summer. Students must
Projects submit proposals no later than April 1.
Under exceptional circumstances, A Bread Loaf student must be
when the format of the normal enrolled in one of the regular Bread
Independent Reading Project is not Loaf/Oxford courses in order to be
appropriate (for example, in acting eligible to take one of these extra
or directing projects), students may tutorials. A tuition fee of $1,550 will
design an Independent Summer be charged for each tutorial.
Reading Project, which counts as
the equivalent of a regular Bread Lecture Program and Other
Loaf course. Students have the Activities
responsibility for establishing the The lecture program at Bread Loaf
subject matter of the summer project introduces students to scholars and
and for submitting a coherent and writers whose lectures broaden the
well-conceived prospectus for the outlook and enrich the content of
summer's work; students should sub- the regular academic program.
mit the prospectus when they regis- Among the special lecturers at Bread
ter for courses, no later than April Loaf have been distinguished poets,
For M.A. and M.Litt. candidates, the novelists, and critics, such as Julia
summer project must be in an area in Alvarez, C.L. Barber, Saul Bellow,
which the student has previously John Berryman, R.P. Blackmur,
taken a course at Bread Loaf and Willa Cather, Richard Ellmann,
received a grade of A- or better; for Northrop Frye, Hamlin Garland,
M.Litt. candidates, the project must Shirley Jackson, Tony Kushner,
be in the student’s area of concentra- Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish,
tion. A tuition fee of $1,550 is Howard Nemeroy, Dorothy Parker,
charged for each reading project. Carl Sandburg, Allen Tate, Richard
Wilbur, and William Carlos Williams.
Oxford Tutorial Reading Projects Similar programs of lectures are held
Students attending Bread Loaf at at the other three campuses.
Lincoln College, Oxford, may pro- Experienced teacher-researchers
pose a course of study for a tutorial also visit Bread Loaf to offer work-
to be taken in addition to their reg- shops on practice-oriented research
ular Bread Loaf course. These tutor- in the classroom.
ial projects receive one unit of cred- Each week in Vermont, students
it and should involve approximately have the opportunity to see classic or
the amount of reading and writing modern films. In Vermont and at
contained within a one-unit Bread Oxford, they are invited to join the
Loaf course in Vermont, New Bread Loaf Madrigalists, who give
Mexico, or Alaska. Project proposals informal performances each sum-
must be approved by both the direc- mer.
tor and a member of the Bread Students at all four campuses
Loaf/Oxford faculty, who will give frequent readings from their
supervise the student’s work during own writings.
Course Registration students. The Davison Memorial
Course choices should be made fol- Library at Bread Loaf contains defin-
lowing receipt of the official bul- itive editions, reference books, and
letin, and course registration will reserve shelves for special course
begin on March 1. Early registration assignments.
is advised, as the size of all classes is At Oxford, students have use of
limited. both the Lincoln College Library
Students are urged to complete and the Bodleian Library of Oxford,
as much reading as possible before one of the greatest libraries in the
arrival in order to permit more time world.
during the session for collateral In New Mexico, students have
assignments and for the preparation access to a core collection of books
of papers. related to the 2001 courses.
In Alaska, New Mexico, and n Alaska, students have access to
Vermont, students may, with the the library of the University of
instructor's permission, audit another Alaska Southeast.
course in literature, in addition to
the two courses taken for credit. Computer Facilities
Students regularly registered for a At Bread Loaf/Vermont a student
course may not change their status to computer center is equipped with
that of auditor without permission acintosh and IBM computers;
of the director. instruction in the use of computers
A bookstore for the sale of text- and of various forms of software is
books, stationery, and supplies is provided when needed. Computer
maintained at Bread Loaf in Facilities are also available in Alaska,
Vermont. Required texts for each New lexico, and Oxford. Bread
course are available for students. It Loaf encourages students to bring
may occasionally be necessary to their own computers for their per-
substitute other texts for those listed sonal use.
in the courses described in this bul-
letin. Although it is impossible to BreadNet
advise students of all changes in One of the most exciting of Bread
advance, the bookstore will stock Loaf’s innovations has been the
copies of the substituted texts. development of BreadNet, a nation-
Students going to Alaska, New al computer network that links the
Mexico, and Oxford must purchase classrooms of Bread Loaf teachers.
their own copies of the texts to be The primary goals of BreadNet are
used. to perpetuate the Bread Loaf com-
munity throughout the year and to
Library Facilities encourage collaboration among all
The facilities of Starr Library at Bread Loaf teachers and their class-
Middlebury College, which include rooms. All Bread Loaf students,
the Abernethy Collection of faculty, staff, and graduates, after a
Americana and the Robert Frost suitable introduction to BreadNet,
Room, are available to Bread Loaf are invited to join.