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CALENDAR AND FEES, SUMMER 1999 Sh, i = | | ~The Bread Loaf Program at Bread Loaf, Vermont June 22-August 7 (Tuition $2,920, Room $1,075, Board $425) BArn0go ypplw PSTeEUoI] E ee College, Oxford | yJZJs Ooq osousq | School of English pSHMaPOUAWOi d (Comprehensive Fee $5,200) MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Program in New Mexico June 22-August 5 (Tuition $2,920, Room and Board $1,850) Program in Alaska sqpsoıud opvd p June 22-August 6 (Tuition $2,920, Room and Board $1,840) PARTIAL LISTING OF FACULTY At Vermont Director: James Maddox (George Washington) Michael Armstrong (Harwell Primary School), Valerie Babb (Georgetown), Sara Blair (University of Virginia), Michael Cadden (Princeton), Harriet Chessman (Wesleyan), Dare Clubb (New School for Social Research), Oskar Eustis (Trinity Repertory Company), Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan), John Fyler (Tufts), Dixie Goswami (Clemson), Jennifer Green-Lewis (George Washington), Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan), David Huddle (University of Vermont), Jacques Lezra (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Victor Luftig (Brandeis), Alan MacVey (University of lowa), Carol MacVey (University of lowa), Paul Muldoon (Princeton), Jacqueline Jones Royster (Ohio State), Margery Sabin (Wellesley), Robert Stepto (Yale), Susanne Wofford (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Bryan Wolf (Yale) At Oxford Director: Stephen Donadio (Middlebury) Kate Flint (Linacre, Oxford), Vincent Gillespie (St. Anne's, Oxford), Douglas Gray (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford), Dennis Kay (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Peter McCullough (Lincoln, Oxford), Seamus Perry (Lincoln, Oxford), Robert Smallwood (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust), John Wilders (Middlebury), Nigel Wood (University of Birmingham) In New Mexico Director: Tilly Warnock (University of Arizona) Gabriel Melendez (University of New Mexico), Claire Sponsler (University of lowa), John Warnock (University of Arizona) In Alaska Director: Lucy Maddox (Georgetown) Emily Bartels (Rutgers), Courtney Cazden (Harvard), Kevin Dunn (Tufts), John Elder (Middlebury), Andrea Lunsford (Ohio State), Cindy Rosenthal The Bread Loaf The curriculum is divided into six groups: (I) Writ- BREADNET ing and the Art of Teaching, (IT) English Language and School of English The Bread Loaf School of English operates its own Literature through the 17th Century, (III) English Litera- telecommunications system, BreadNet, which is available ture since the 17th Century, (IV) American Literature, (V) to all members of the Bread Loaf community, past and World Literature, (VI) Theater Arts. Ordinarily the M.A. ince 1920, the Bread Loaf School of English present. Through BreadNet, projects begun at the school program includes a minimum of two courses each from has held six-week summer sessions, offering during the summer session may be carried out during Groups IT and HI, and one course each from Groups IV graduate courses in literary study, the teaching of the ensuing academic year. Often, classrooms in different and V. writing, creative writing, and drama. The school’s parts of the U.S. and abroad carry out shared projects on home campus is located in a strikingly beautiful set- BreadNet. Training in the use of computers and in tele- ting within sight of Bread Loaf Mountain, several THE MASTER OF LETTERS (M.LITT.) DEGREE communications is available at Bread Loaf. mules outside Middlebury, Vermont. The M.Litt. program builds, in a concentrated, specialized Bread Loaf offers a very wide range of courses way, on the broader base of the M.A. in English, which is a in the study of literature; literary theory; the teaching prerequisite for the degree. Students choose a field of con- ADMISSION of writing; acting; directing; and the writing of poetry, centration in which most or all of their course work is Admission is based on college transcripts, three letters of drama, and fiction. Students may elect to attend the done. A field of concentration may be a period (such as the recommendation, and a writing sample. Students are school for one or two summers, or they may follow Renaissance), a genre (such as the novel), or a well-defined accepted for one summer only and must reapply for a full program of studies leading to a graduate degree area of study (such as theater arts and dramatic literature, each subsequent summer of study. (M.A. or M.Litt.), usually in four or five summers. literary and cultural theory, or writing theory and peda- Admissions decisions on first-year students are The faculty of the school is drawn from distinguished gogy). No thesis is required. In the final summer a student made as applications are received beginning February 1. institutions across the country and from the United must pass a comprehensive examination covering his or Students will be considered for admission until May 15, Kingdom. The school’s students, most of whom are her field of concentrationT.h e program is limited to highly but as the school fills quickly, it is suggested that applica- secondary school teachers, are similarly diverse in qualified candidates. Students are accepted provisionally for tion materials arrive before March 1, when course regis- geographical origin, race, and background. the first summer. At least one summer must be spent in tration begins. Decisions on special fellowships may be The Bread Loaf School of English is one of residence at the Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont. made somewhat later than others, and will be noted in 10 summer programs offered by Middlebury College. the application materials. As Bread Loaf is especially [here is no graduate program in English offered committed to increasing diversity in its commu- NONDEGREE PROGRAMS during the regular academic year. nity, minority applications are encouraged. Program in Continuing Graduate Education The school permits teachers who have their master’s de- DEGREE PROGRAMS grees or others who have at least a baccalaureate degree to FINANCIAL AID THE MASTER OF ARTS (M.A.) DEGREE enroll for a summer as nondegree students in continuing Financial aid is available in the form of grants and/or Candidates must hold a bachelor’s degree from an graduate education. Upon successful completion of this work aid. The aid is awarded on the basis of financial accredited college and be in residence for at least one program, Middlebury College will issue the student a Cer- need and scholastic achievement on a first-come, first- summer at the School of English in Vermont. To earn tificate in Continuing Graduate Education. served basis. For that reason, it is prudent to submit all the M.A., students must successfully complete 10 necessary forms and materials as early as possible. Re- courses (10 units or 30 semester-hour credits). Undergraduate Honors Program quests for aid should be made when the application Phe normal summer program consists of two Although the School of English offers only graduate form is submitted to the school; all pertinent forms and courses, each meeting five hours a week; exceptional courses, exceptionally able undergraduates with strong information will be sent to applicants as soon as they udents may, with permission after the first summer, backgrounds in literary study may apply to Bread Loaf after become available. take a third course for credit. A grade of B- or better the completion of three years toward their baccalaureate is required in order to receive course credit. While the degree. Their courses may be transferred to their home egree usually takes five summers to complete, stu- institutions or they may serve as the initial credits leading to dents may transfer in up to two units (six semester- the M.A. degree at the Bread Loaf School of English. hour credits) of work and complete the degree in three or four sunumners. THE BREAD LOAF PROGRAMS THE PROGRAM IN ALASKA Beginning in 1999, Bread Loaf will offer a full Each summer, the Bread Loaf School of English assembles a dedicated community of teachers and program at a fourth site, the University of Alaska learners at each of its campuses. Courses are Southeast in Juneau. Courses at Bread Loaf/ offered in the study of literature and literary Alaska will take advantage of Juneau’s unique theory; the teaching of writing; the writing of location, and several courses will focus on the fiction, poetry, and drama; and acting and directing. literature and landscape of the Pacific North- Students follow courses of study leading to the west and on indigenous cultures. Students at Master of Arts or Master of Letters degrees in Bread Loaf/Alaska will be able to choose EnglishT.h e emphasis at Bread Loaf has always between a six- or three-week program of study. been upon close contact between teacher and student in an intensive six-week course of study. ANNENBERG RURAL CHALLENGE FELLOWSHIPS BREAD LOAF, VERMONT A generous grant from the Annenberg Rural Challenge will provide fellowships covering Since 1920, the central location for these programs costs up to $5,000 for 18 rural teachers to has been the campus situated in sight of Bread attend Bread Loaf in 1999. Only teachers Loaf Mountain in the Green Mountains of associated with partners of the Annenberg Vermont. Faculty members from many of the best Rural Challenge are eligible to apply for these colleges and universities across the country offer fellowships. courses in literature, literary theory, writing, the teaching of writing, and theater. All of these FELLOWSHIPS FOR RURAL TEACHERS courses benefit from the on-site presence of a professional acting ensemble that visits classrooms FROM ALASKA, ARIZONA, COLORADO, GEORGIA, NEW MEXICO, AND VERMONT and, along with actors drawn from the student Thanks to a generous grant from the DeWitt body, appears in theatrical productions during the Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, Bread Loaf will summerT.h e Bread Loaf campus is the site for an offer full-cost fellowships to up to 25 rural extraordinarily varied educational experience. teachers from the six target states listed above. The awards will cover tuition, room, board, THE PROGRAM AT OXFORD travel, and a $1,000 grant for classroom projects Bread Loaf also offers a summer program at during 1999-2000. Lincoln College, Oxford, where students enroll in one two-unit seminar/tutorial for the session. FOR MORE INFORMATION Courses are offered in the study of literature and See the other side of this poster for more literary theory, the teaching of writing, and the information about the Bread Loaf School. To study of dramatic texts, coupled with frequent trips receive application forms and the bulletin of the to dramatic productions in London and Stratford. Bread Loaf School of English, or to learn more about any oft he special fellowships, write to: THE PROGRAM IN NEW MEXICO Bread Loaf also offers courses at the Native James Maddox, Director American Preparatory School in Rowe, New The Bread Loaf School of English Mexico, 40 miles outside Santa Fe. In this south- Middlebury College western setting, students take courses in literature, Middlebury VT 05753 literary theory, and the teaching of writing. At Telephone: 802-443-5418 Bread Loat/New Mexico special emphasis is Fax: 802-443-2060 placed upon such subjects as Native American E-mail: [email protected] literature, nature writing of the Southwest and http://www.blse.middlebury.edu Great Basin, and American Hispanic literature.