er Bread Loaf School of English 7 k"oYek A ว 0 ภ์ เวต ีA ge 4 “ม / ผู 7 9 F x s ` E ก จ ov i 434 ex Summer 2007 Dates and Fees New Mexico Campus June 12 Arrival and registration day June 13 Classes begin July 24 Classes end July 25 Commencement Tuition: $3,870 Room and Board: $2,470 Facility Fees: $ 80 Total: $6,420 ADMINISTRATION BREAD LOAF STAFF North Carolina Campus June 19 Arrival and registration day RONALD D. LIEBOWITZ, Karen Browne June 20 Classes begin President of Middlebury College Lexa deCourval Susan Holcomb July 31 Classes end Judy Jessup August 1 Commencement JAMES H. MADDOX, Director of the Elaine Lathrop Bread Loaf School of English Sandy LeGault Tuition: $3,870 EMILY BARTELS, Associate Director of Room and Board: $2,300 the Bread Loaf School of English PLEASE ADDRESS Facility Fees: p 300 CORRESPONDENCE TO: Total: $6,470 CLAIRE SPONSLER, On-Site Director of Bread Loafi n New Mexico Bread Loaf School of English TILLY WARNOCK, On-Site Director 121A South Main Street Oxford Campus of Bread Loafi n North Carolina Middlebury College June 25 Arrival day Middlebury VT 05753 PETER McCULLOUGH, On-Site June 26 Registration day Telephone: 802-443-5418 Director of Bread Loaf at Lincoln College, June 27 Classes begin Fax: 802-443-2060 (through June 15) Oxtord Summer fax: 802-443-2770 August 8 Classes end (June 18—August 13) August 11 Commencement Front cover photo by Edward Brown E-mail: [email protected] Other photographs by Edward Brown, Web page: http://www.middlebury.edu/ Comprehensive Fee: $9,025 Charles Byrne, SuZanne Curtis, William academics/blse/ Crenshaw, Jackie Fitzpatrick, Bob Handelman, Allison Howard, Jack Jessup, Sandy LeGault, Ann Sulzer, Jamieson Tall, Peggy Turner, and courtesy of the University This publication was Vermont Campus of North Carolina at Asheville printed on recycled paper. June 26 Arrival and registration day June 27 Classes begin July 20 Midterm recess August 8 Classes end The Bread Loaf School of English, as a graduate school of Middlebury College, is accredited by the August 11 Commencement New England Association ofS chools and Colleges. Middlebury College complies with applicable pro- visions ofs tate and federal law that prohibit discrimination in employment or in admission or access to its educational or extracurricular programs, activities, or facilities, on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, Tuition: national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, place ofb irth, Vietnam veteran Board: status, or against qualified individuals with disabilities on the basis ofd isability. Because ofv ary- Room: ing circumstances and legal requirements, such provisions may not apply to programs offered by the Total: College outside the United States. This is consistent with the College's intent to comply with the requirements ofa pplicable law. Individuals with questions about the policies governing such programs should direct inquiries to James Maddox. MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Bread Loaf School of English 2007 Summer Programs ach summer the Bread Loaf School of English assembles a community of teachers and learners at each of its four campuses: St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the University of North Carolina at Asheville; Lincoln College, Oxford, in the United Kingdom; and the Bread Loaf Mountain campus in Vermont. Students may take courses in continuing graduate education, or they may enroll in full degree programs, leading to the Master of Arts and Master of Letters degrees in English. The Bread Loaf emphasis has always been upon close contact between teacher and student in an intensive six-week course of study. Bread Loaf’s faculty come from many of the most distinguished colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom and offer courses in literature, literary theory, creative writing, the teaching of writing, and theater arts. Students normally enroll in two one-unit (three semester hours) courses each summer. Since it was established in 1920, the Bread Loaf School of English has been a cornerstone of Middlebury College’s reputation for excellence in the teaching of literature. The Bread Loaf School is one of 11 summer programs of Middlebury College. Others are the Language Schools of Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Middlebury College offers no graduate program in English during the regular academic year. ‘The Campuses The Bread Loaf School of English The Bread Loaf School of English at St. John’s College, Santa Fe, at the University of North Carolina New Mexico at Asheville JUNE 12-JULY 25, 2007 JUNE 19-8576151 1, 2007 Bread Loaf offers courses at St. John’s Bread Loaf offers courses at the University College, at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo of North Carolina in Asheville, at the foot Mountains in Santa Fe, New Mexico. of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Bread Loaf Bread Loafi n New Mexico enrolls approxi- in North Carolina will enroll approximately The bell tower of St. John’s College, mately 90 students and offers a curriculum 70 students and offers a curriculum similar Santa Fe. similar to those offered at the other to those offered at the other campuses, campuses, but with an appropriate emphasis but with an appropriate emphasis upon upon American Indian literature, American literature of the South and African Hispanic literature, and writing of the American literature. Southwest. Students will be lodged in single and double Students are lodged in double and triple rooms on the UNCA campus, which is rooms at St. John’s College. The Bread located within Asheville, one mile north Loaf office can give advice to students of downtown. Students living on campus with families seeking housing in Santa Fe. will take their meals together in the UNCA Students living on campus take their meals Dining Hall. together at St. John’s. Asheville is a small city; it is both intensely In the larger area around Santa Fe, regional and strikingly cosmopolitan— there are many locales to visit, including regional in being a center for local Appalachian arts and country and bluegrass Albuquerque, Acoma, Taos, and some of the most significant archeological sites in music, cosmopolitan for so small a southern the United States. Some classes may make city in its varied ethnic restaurants and excursions to selected sites. Students might ubiquitous sidewalk cafes. Mountain sports seriously consider renting a car, since and activities around Asheville include many of the sites are easily reachable from, hiking, mountain climbing, and whitewater but not in close proximity to, Santa Fe. rafting. St. John’s College. Students may attend any of Bread Loaf’s four campuses, and they may attend different campuses in different summers. The single residency requirement is that students pursuing a degree must spend at least one summer at the Vermont campus. See the front inside cover for a complete schedule of dates. Blue Ridge Mountains outside ofA sheville. N The Bread Loaf School of English The Bread Loaf School of English at Lincoln College, Oxford at Bread Loaf, Vermont JUNE 25-AUGUST 4, 2007 JUNE 26—AuGusT 11, 2007 Each summer the Bread Loaf School of The central location for the Bread Loaf English enrolls about 80 students at Lincoln School of English is the campus located College. Bread Loaf has exclusive use of outside Middlebury, in sight of Bread Loaf the accommodations of Lincoln College Mountain in the Green Mountains of during the summer session, so that the Vermont. Each year, approximately 260 stu- School of English has its own identity. Each dents come from all regions of the United student selects one seminar as a two-unit States and from other countries to take (six semester hours) summer program. There courses in literature, creative writing, the are usually six students in each seminar, teaching of writing, and theater arts. All of which meets in a manner determined by these courses benefit from the on-site pres- the tutor. For example, the tutor may meet ence of the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble, lunch in Vermont. all students together twice a week and then which visits classrooms and, along with in tutorial for an hour. Oxford tutors place actors drawn from the student body, appears heavy emphasis on independent study; stu- in theatrical productions during the summer. dents should expect to give oral reports and write weekly papers. Seminars and tutorials Dormitory housing at Bread Loaf in are often held at the Oxford college with Vermont is available for students without which the tutor is affiliated. families accompanying them; most student rooms are doubles. Cabins, houses, and At Oxford, students have single accom- camps in the mountain communities sur- modations, occasionally consisting of a rounding Bread Loaf and at Lake Dunmore living room and a bedroom. They take their are available for students with families. meals together in the College Hall. Rooms Although the Bread Loaf office provides are cleaned by scouts. A limited number of housing lists, securing off-campus housing is suites are available at Lincoln for students the responsibility of the student. Meals for with spouses, and there are a limited num- on-campus students are served in the Bread ber of semi-private accommodations outside Loaf Inn; off-campus students may pay for of Lincoln for students with families. individual meals in the Inn. The School contracts the services of a local day care Located on the Turl in the center of the center to provide a child-care program for city of Oxford, Lincoln is one of the children of students, faculty, and staff. smallest and most beautiful of the Oxford colleges. The School promotes theater trips For those who enjoy outdoor life, Bread Unive Shel to Stratford-upon-Avon and London. In Loaf/Vermont is ideally located at the edge 4 r ๒ poSJ recent years, Oxford classes have, either of the Green Mountain National Forest. A officially or unofficially, taken excursions junction with the Long Trail, which winds 4 Bodleian Library to locales associated with the courses. along the summit of the Green Mountains Hý 1 f 0 and extends from southern Vermont to the Canadian border, is a short hike from the School. A picnic at the nearby Robert Frost Farm and a tour of the Frost Cabin are The Radcliffe Camera, a short distance from popular Bread Loaf traditions, as are movies Lincoln College, houses part of the Bodleian and dances in the Bread Loaf Barn. The Library’s English literature collection. extensive campus and nearby lakes and rivers offer many opportunities for recre- ation. A softball and soccer playing field and tennis and volleyball courts are available. Running and hiking trails are everywhere. | Academics The Master of Arts (M.A.) Degree status in continuing graduate education. Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree Upon the student’s successful completion of from an accredited college. To earn the a summer’s study, Middlebury College will M.A., students must successfully complete issue the student a Certificate in Continuing the equivalent of 10 courses; the M.A. is Graduate Education. usually earned in four or five summers. No thesis is required. A grade of B- or Undergraduate Honors Program better is required in order to receive Exceptionally able undergraduates with course credit. Students must complete strong backgrounds in literary study may be work leading to the M.A. within 10 years admitted to graduate study at Bread Loaf of their initial enrollment. after the completion of three years toward their bachelor’s degree and may take up to The curriculum is divided into six groups: two units of course work. Their courses (I) writing and the teaching of writing; (II) may be transferred to their home institu- English literature through the seventeenth tions, or they may serve as the initial credits century; (III) English literature since the leading to the M.A. degree at the Bread seventeenth century; (IV) American litera- Loaf School of English. ture; (V) world literature; (VI) theater arts. Ordinarily the M.A. program includes a Credits Graduate Education minimum of two courses each from Groups The normal summer program ofs tudy II and HI and one course each from Groups consists of two courses (two units) in New Undergraduate Honors IV and V. Upon the student’s request, any Mexico, North Carolina, and Vermont, Program one of these six distribution requirements and one course (two units) at Oxford. At may be waived. all campuses except Oxford, each course meets five hours a week. Each one-unit The Master of Letters (M.Litt.) Degree course at Bread Loaf receives three semester The M.Litt. program builds in a concen- hours (the equivalent of four and one-half trated, specialized way on the broader base quarter hours) of graduate credit. After of the M.A. in English, which is a prereq- the first summer exceptional students may uisite for this degree. For example, students request permission to take a third course for may concentrate on a period such as the credit in New Mexico, North Carolina, or Renaissance, a genre such as the novel, Vermont or an independent tutorial (one or a field of study such as American poetry. unit of credit) at Oxford. The M.Litt. can be earned in four or five Transfer Credits summers by following a program of 10 Up to two units (six semester hours or nine courses or Independent Reading Projects. quarter hours) of graduate credit may be This program ofs tudies is drawn up by the transferred from other accredited institu- end of the student’s first summer in the tions, to count toward the Bread Loaf degree program in consultation with the M.A. or M.Litt. degree. Each course must associate director. Of the 10 courses, up to be approved for transfer by the associate three may be electives not directly related director, preferably before the work is done. Reading in the Barn in Vermont. to the field of concentration. No thesis is Transfer course credits cannot be counted required, but in the final summer a student for degree credit elsewhere and must be must pass a comprehensive written and oral of a grade ofB or better. Graduate credits, examination, or the equivalent, in his or whether they are earned at Bread Loaf or her field of concentration. Students must transferred from another institution, cannot complete work leading to the M.Litt. count toward a degree after 10 years have within 10 years of their initial acceptance. elapsed. Continuing Graduate Education Credits earned at the Bread Loaf School The School allows students not seeking a of English are generally transferable to degree to enroll for a summer in a nondegree other graduate institutions. The Program in Theater Independent Summer Virtually since its beginning, the Bread Loaf Reading Projects School of English in Vermont has put a Under exceptional circumstances, major emphasis upon the theater arts. The when the format of the normal Program in Theater provides formal and Independent Reading Project is informal instruction in acting, directing, not appropriate (for example, in playwriting, stagecraft, and design. While acting or directing projects), stu- the program is not structured as a profes- dents may design an Independent sional training school, it is oriented toward Summer Reading Project, which bringing students into contact with theater counts as the equivalent of a professionals in all fields. A major aspect of regular Bread Loaf course. theater study at the Bread Loaf program Students have the responsibility in Vermont is the presentation of a wide or establishing the subject matter variety of performance projects. of the summer project and for submitting a well-conceived Bread Loaf each year brings professional prospectus for the summer’s work; actors to the Vermont campus to assist in students should submit the prospectus when Eli Angela Braz | mounting the summer’s major production, they register for courses, or no later than production of Charles Mee’s Big Love. produced in Bread Loafs Burgess Meredith arch 15. The summer project must be in Little Theater; these actors constitute the an area in which the student has previously Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble. The Ensemble aken a course at Bread Loaf and received a is intimately involved in many of the class- grade of A- or higher. rooms—not only classes in dramatic litera- ture, but also classes in other forms of liter- Oxford Independent Tutorials ary study and in the teaching of writing. Exceptional students attending Bread Loaf In recent years, major at Lincoln College, Oxford may propose a productions at Bread Loaf in New plays written by Bread Loaf students course of study for a tutorial to be taken in Vermont have included: are occasionally produced in the theater addition to their regular Bread Loaf course. on the Vermont campus, as are one-acts These tutorial projects receive one unit of Three Penny Opera directed by advanced directing students. credit and should involve approximately the Much Ado about Nothing Opportunities also exist for acting students amount of reading and writing contained Arcadia to explore and present longer scenes and within a one-unit Bread Loaf course at one Measure for Measure for all interested students to act in informal of the other three campuses. Project propos Romeo and Juliet presentations in the directing or playwriting als must be approved by both the director Big Love workshops. and a member of the Bread Loaf/ Oxford faculty, who will supervise the students Independent Reading Projects work during the ensuing summer. Students With the approval of the associate direc- should register for the tutorial when they tor and an appropriate member of the register for their other courses, and submit a faculty, qualified students may undertake prospectus no later than March 15. A Bread an Independent Reading Project, which Loaf student must be enrolled in one of the “Bread Loaf’s contributions to consists of reading and research during regular Bread Loaf/Oxford courses in order my teaching extend beyond the the academic year. Students must have to be eligible to take one of these extra classroom. Last رن the first taken a course at Bread Loaf in the area of tutorials. A tuition fee of $1,935 will be their proposed reading project and have charged for each tutorial. time I taught Much Ado about demonstrated their competence by secur- Nothing, which was the play ing a grade of A- or higher in that course. Course Registration performed my first summer in Arrangements must be completed during the Course registration begins on February 15. Vermont. I was able to draw summer session before the academic year in All enrolled students will receive detailed which the reading project is to be under- registration instructions. upon the interpretations of the taken. Each reading project culminates in a Vermont production in my teach- long essay, a draft of which is submitted in At all campuses except Oxford, students ing of the pla) », and I believe it early April following the academic year of may, with the instructor’s permission, audit greatly enhanced my students’ reading and research. Students then work another course in literature, in addition to experience with Shakespeare’s closely with a faculty member in revising the two courses taken for credit. Students and bringing this essay to completion over regularly registered for a course may comedy the course of the summer. A reading project not change their status to that of auditor Jenny Wood, Bread Loaf successfully completed is the equivalent of a without permission of the director. M.A. and 0 teacher regular Bread Loaf course. A tuition fee of $1,935 is charged for each reading project. Admission & Aid Admission Re-enrollment New students are admitted on a rolling basis Returning students should complete a beginning on January 15; as long as space 5 re-enrollment form at the end of the available, new applications will be accepted summer session or early in the fall. until May 15. They will be notified of re-enrollment in December. Students whose work receives M.A. Program, Continuing Graduate a grade below B will be placed on Education, and Undergraduate academic probation. Students who receive Honors a second grade below B may be denied Admission is based on college transcripts, re-enrollment. letters of recommendation, a statement of purpose, and a writing sample. Returning students who have not attended Bread Loafi n the past ten years or more M.Litt. Program will be asked to submit new application Admission is limited to students holding materials. an M.A. in English with especially strong academic records. Candidates (including Financial Aid Bread Loaf M.A.s) will be evaluated Because of the generosity over the years of primarily on the basis of their master’s Bread Loaf graduates, faculty, and friends, degree course work and a sample of the School has steadily increased its finan- Faculty /student conference on the porch of their graduate-level writing. Applicants cial aid resources. No interested applicant the Bread Loaf Inn. holding a Bread Loaf M.A. are with strong credentials should fail to apply encouraged to apply by December 1. because of need. As Bread Loaf is especially committed Financial aid in the form of grants and loans to increasing diversity in its commu- is available at all campuses; aid is awarded nity, minority applications are on the basis of financial need and scholastic Some 80% of Bread Loaf encouraged. achievement.T o be considered for all types students are teachers, most of aid offered through Middlebury College, a of them secondary-school Instructions for Application student must first file a Bread Loaf Financial teachers. New applicants should fill out and return Aid Form with the Middlebury Office the application form and supporting of Student Financial Services. (For more “We spend an entire materials, along with a $55 application fee. information and downloadable forms, visit Application forms and detailed instructions the Office of Student Financial Service’s Web summer in a community are available from the Bread Loaf office site at www.middlebury.edu/admissions/ made up almost entirely in Vermont at the address listed inside the finaid/breadloaf/.) Requests for aid should of educators. Almost every front cover of this bulletin, or via the online be made when the application form is moment of the summer inquiry form on the Bread Loaf Web site. submitted to the School. Since financial aid includes the possibility for is dispensed on a first-come, first-served a serious discussion that First-time applicants who were accepted for leads to a new idea, or a a previous summer but did not attend Bread completed materials as soon as possible after Loaf may reactivate their applications by they are received. On-campus student jobs new approach within the submitting a new application form; they will are available in Vermont and New Mexico. classroom. Almost every be considered for admission with other new moment includes the applicants. They will not be required to pay Bread Loaf staff work throughout the possibility of an off-hand the application fee again, or to resubmit year to raise funds for special fellowships. remark that can do the supporting application materials if they Information about any fellowships will be reapply within two years (the Bread Loaf posted on the Bread Loaf Web site if and same.” office will keep all such applications on file when they become available. for two years only). — Paul Myette (Vermont, 2005) 6 Other Information Bread Loaf students can go to the “Current Students” page of the Bread Loaf School of English Web site to find downloadable forms and more detailed information Fees Fees for summer 2007 are listed in the front ๑ before the end of first week of classes: about: inside cover of this catalog. The tuition 60 percent of tuition and 60 percent fee includes a fee for an accident insurance of board; ๑ ordering official transcripts policy with limited coverage. An additional ๑ before the end of second week of ๑ viewing transcripts $1,935 is charged when students take a third classes: 20 percent of tuition plus ๑ accessing grade reports 20 percent of board; course for credit. ๑ requesting letters of ๑ no refunds after the end of the Each accepted applicant who wishes to second week of classes. reference register is required to pay a non-refundable e transferring credits $400 enrollment deposit, which is applied Transportation ๑ re-enrolling to the student’s total bill. An applicant is Students are expected to make their own officially enrolled in the Bread Loaf program travel arrangements. They will receive infor- only upon receipt of this deposit. Money mation early in the spring about traveling to should not be sent until payment is request- the campus at which they are enrolled. www.middlebury.edu/ ed. Rooms are assigned only to students academics/blse/students enrolled officially. In order to be fair to Transcripts students wait listed for on-campus housing, Official transcripts from the Bread Loaf students who intend to live off-campus must School of English will be issued by notify the Bread Loaf office no later than Middlebury College for a fee of $5 for each May 1. Students who move off-campus after transcript ordered. Requests for transcripts this date will incur a penalty fee of $300. must be made by the individual student in writing (not by e-mail or fax) to the Final bills are mailed about May 1 and are Registrar sO ffice, Forest Hall, Middlebury payable upon receipt. A late fee will be College, Middlebury, VT 05753. No charged for bills not paid by June 1, except transcript will be issued to students who for those students admitted after bills have are financially indebted to the College until been sent. Checks should be made payable satisfactory arrangements have been made to Middlebury College. Students living with the Middlebury Controller’s Office. outside the U.S. must have the checks made out in U.S. dollars. Letters of Reference Requests for letters of reference should be Refunds made to the associate director of the School, Students who withdraw for medical reasons through the Bread Loaf office, not to former or serious emergencies forfeit the enrollment Bread Loaf faculty. deposit but may receive refunds for any additional amounts paid as follows: Facilities & Activities Library Facilities facilities are also available at the other three The facilities of the Middlebury College campuses. Bread Loaf encourages students to Library in Vermont, which include the bring their own computers for their personal Abernethy Collection of Americana and use. There are wireless capabilities on the the Robert Frost Room, are available to Vermont campus. There are direct Internet Bread Loaf students. The Davison Memorial connections in student rooms in New Library at Bread Loaf contains definitive Mexico, North Carolina, and Oxford. editions, reference books, and reserve shelves for special course assignments. BreadNet and the Bread Loaf Teacher Network ° In New Mexico, students have use One of the most exciting of Bread Loaf's of the library of St. John's College, innovations has been the development of supplemented by books from the BreadNet, an electronic network that links Among the special University of New Mexico. the classrooms of Bread Loaf teachers. The lecturers at Bread Loaf primary goals of BreadNet are to perpetuate have been distinguished ๑ In North Carolina, students have use the Bread Loaf community throughout the poets, novelists, and critics. of the R. Hiden Ramsey Library and year and to encourage collaboration among its resources. all Bread Loaf teachers, faculty, and their classrooms. All Bread Loaf students, faculty, e Julia Alvarez ๑ At Oxford, students have use of both staff, and graduates are invited to join; the Lincoln College Library and the there is no fee. e Nancie Atwell Bodleian Library of Oxford, one of e C.L. Barber the greatest libraries in the world. Lecture Program and Other Activities e Saul Bellow The lecture programs at all Bread Loaf ๑ John Berryman Texts campuses introduce students to scholars and ๑ R.P. Blackmur Texts for each course are listed with the writers whose lectures broaden the outlook e Willa Cather course descriptions found in this bulletin, and enrich the content of the regular usually in the order in which they will be academic program. Among the special lec- e Sandra Cisneros studied. Students going to New Mexico, turers at Bread Loaf have been distinguished e Richard Ellmann North Carolina, and Oxford must purchase poets, novelists, critics, and teachers such as e Robert Frost their own copies of the texts to be used; those listed on the left side of this page. e Northrop Frye Bread Loaf does not maintain bookstores e Hamlin Garland at these campuses. An onsite bookstore for Experienced teacher-researchers also e Stephen Greenblatt the sale of required texts is maintained at visit Bread Loaf to offer workshops on the Vermont campus. practice-oriented research in the classroom. e Seamus Heaney e Shirley Jackson It may occasionally be necessary to At most campuses, students have the e Tony Kushner substitute other texts for those listed in the opportunity to see classic or modern films. e Sinclair Lewis courses described in this bulletin. The Bread At all campuses they are invited to join the e Archibald MacLeish Loaf office will make every effort to inform Bread Loaf Madrigalists or other singing e Scott Momaday students of any changes before the start of eroups. Students at all campuses give the session. Students are urged to complete readings from their own writings. e Howard Nemerov cer as much reading as possible before arrival ๑ Dorothy Par in order to permit more time during the Medical Facilities e Christopher Ricks session for collateral assignments and for At Bread Loaf/ Vermont a nurse is in ๑ Carl Sandbu rg the preparation of papers. attendance on weekdays, and the College ๑ Allen Tate medical director is available for consultation. e Helen Vend S Computer Facilities The well-equipped Porter Medical Center At Bread Loaf/Vermont a student computer in Middlebury is within easy reach. e Richard Wilbur center is equipped with both Macintosh e William Car os Williams computers and PC’s; instruction in the use At the other three sites, students with of computers and of various forms of soft- medical needs will be referred to local ware is provided when needed. Computer doctors.