BREAD LOAF SCHOOL 2016 COURSE OF ENGLISH CATALOG SUMMER 2016 1 SUMMER 2016 SESSION DATES VERMONT READ THE Arrival and registration . June 21 Classes begin . June. 22 Classes end . August. 2 Commencement . August. 6 WORLD At Bread Loaf, we engage and inspire innovative thinkers who, NEW MEXICO Arrival and registration . June 18–19 through the interpretation of literary and critical texts, Classes begin . June. 20 contribute creative thought, write persuasive and original arguments, Classes end . July . 28 and use relevant emerging technologies to develop effective Commencement . July. 30 teaching and learning practices. OXFORD Arrival . June 27 Registration . June . 28 Classes begin . June. 29 IN A WHOLE Classes end . August. 5 Commencement . August. 6 NEW WAY 2 BLSE SUMMER 2016 1 WELCOME TO BREAD LOAF WHERE YOU'LL FIND ■ A community of engaged students eager to immerse themselves in rigorous graduate study with leading faculty from eminent colleges and universities across the U .S . and U .K . ■ The opportunity to work closely with faculty and fellow students . ■ Innovative, place-based learning oppor- tunities at three culturally distinctive campuses . IMMERSIVE UNIQUE INNOVATIVE The six-week summer schedule allows working Courses at Bread Loaf’s three campuses in Students have access to major libraries; state- ■ A one-of-a-kind chance to refresh and professionals to pursue graduate education. Vermont, New Mexico, and Oxford, England, of-the-art digital tools for research, writing, and recharge your imagination in a collabo- The full-time residential experience encourages link education to place and give students unpar- teaching; and membership in the nationally rative environment for six uninterrupted students to immerse themselves in curricular alleled access to diverse cultural experiences. recognized Bread Loaf Teacher Network. BLTN weeks . and co-curricular life and shape a dynamic Degree candidates must attend the Vermont promotes the translation of Bread Loaf summer learning community through daily connections campus at least once, but are encouraged to study into innovative teaching methodologies, ■ An expansive curriculum in literature and with colleagues, professional actors, faculty, and attend all three campuses. providing the training, connections, and support culture, pedagogy and literacy, creative staff. Classes are complemented with field trips, for teachers to transform their classrooms. writing and theater arts—especially films, dances, readings by Pulitzer-prize winning INDIVIDUALIZED useful to K-12 English and language authors, student-generated conferences, and Bread Loaf classes are small, and instruction is TRANSFORMATIVE arts teachers, to students preparing sports activities. adapted to students with different training, expe- Bread Loaf fosters opportunities for professional for a PhD, and to professionals seeking rience, talents, and goals. The faculty meet with advancement and intellectual enrichment, which intellectual challenge and enrichment . EXPANSIVE students regularly to guide work in progress that allow students to return to their communities The Bread Loaf curriculum combines the study of builds on individual background and interests. with the partners, skills, and inspiration to ■ A year-round professional development literature with study in creative and pedagogical Students can enroll for one or more summers of develop innovative projects and pedagogies. network built on long-term partnerships fields, encouraging students to think across disci- continuing graduate education, or pursue a mas- Bread Loaf challenges students to form new ways and a track record of extraordinary plinary boundaries. As leaders in multiple fields, ter of arts or master of letters degree in English. of reading, writing, performing, teaching, and success in underserved schools . faculty members bring diverse and groundbreak- interpreting the world. ing approaches to what and how they teach. 2 BLSE SUMMER 2016 3 WHERE WE ARE Bread Loaf students spend their summers at three culturally distinctive campuses: in the Green Mountains of Vermont; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the historic city of Oxford, England. BREAD LOAF/VERMONT is located on Students may take advantage of weekend excur- Middlebury’s Bread Loaf mountain campus in sions arranged by the Bread Loaf staff. Ripton. With the broadest curriculum, it is the largest of the programs and enrolls roughly 250 BREAD LOAF/NEW MEXICO takes place at students each summer. Bread Loaf/Vermont is St. John’s College, stretched out below the Sangre also home to the acclaimed Bread Loaf Acting de Cristo Mountains. The program enrolls Ensemble, an integral part of the summer approximately 80 students, and the curricular experience. and co-curricular offerings take advantage of the Students are housed in historically preserved cultures of the Southwest. Victorian buildings on campus, most in double Students are lodged in double rooms and rooms, and share meals in the Bread Loaf eat together at St. John’s College. Students with Inn. Students with families arrange their own families arrange their own off-campus housing. off-campus housing. Students have access to Students have access to the library and other two libraries: the Davison Memorial Library on facilities of St. John’s College. the Bread Loaf campus, where reserve readings Extra-curricular offerings include a Santa Fe for summer courses are shelved, and the Davis Opera workshop and field trips to sites such as Family Library on the Middlebury campus, Tent Rocks National Park and Acoma Pueblo. which houses the main collections. The rural campus sits within the Green BREAD LOAF/OXFORD is based at Lincoln Mountain National Forest and has access to College, University of Oxford, and is centrally trails, mountain lakes, and rivers, as well as situated within the city. The program enrolls athletic facilities on campus and at Middlebury. approximately 75 students and features courses on British and world literatures. Students take Historic Oxford’s old English charm; the southwestern style one two-unit course (six semester-hour credits), of Santa Fe; the mountain views in Ripton, Vermont . half of which is devoted to independent research. SUMMER 2016 5 HISTORY In 1915, Joseph Battell, a former Middlebury College student and longtime Middlebury ACADEMICS businessman, willed to Middlebury College an inn, a collection of Bread Loaf provides students with a rigorous and innovative curriculum cottages, and 31,000 Ripton, Vermont 1885 well suited to the needs of K–12 English and language arts teachers. acres in the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains . These lands and residences became home to the Bread Loaf School of English, THE MASTER OF ARTS (MA) DEGREE THE MASTER OF LETTERS which held its first session in 1920 with the aim of providing graduate education in the fields The Master of Arts program gives students (M LITT) DEGREE of English and American literatures, public speaking, creative writing, dramatic production, a broad familiarity with the fields of British, The Master of Letters program allows students and the teaching of English . In 2015, the philanthropy of trustee Louis Bacon ’79 ensured American, and world literatures. The curriculum to achieve mastery of a specialization within the the conservation of 2,100 acres of Bread Loaf land in perpetuity through the Bread Loaf is divided into six groups: fields of literature, pedagogy, and/or the creative Preservation Fund . arts. The MLitt is similar to the MA degree except that MLitt candidates design their own 1: Writing, Pedagogy, and Literacy fields of concentration: seven of the 10 required 2: British Literature through the units must be in the field. Although no thesis is Seventeenth Century required, in the final summer each degree candi- Students have single accommodations in Lincoln date must pass a comprehensive examination or 3: British Literature since the College or its annex in Lincoln House, with produce a final project representing the course Seventeenth Century bathrooms en suite. A limited number of rooms work done in the field. 4: American Literature are available on site for students with partners, and some off-site accommodations are available 5: World Literature CONTINUING GRADUATE EDUCATION for students with families. Students have access 6: Theater Arts Students may enroll for continuing graduate to both the Lincoln College Library and the education for one or more summers. Students 400-year-old Bodleian Library, one of the finest receive a certificate in continuing education research libraries in the world. Degree candidates must complete 10 units, five after successful completion of each summer Students may take advantage of course- of which must meet distributional requirements. term. Continuing education students may take Professor Jeri Johnson’s seminar on James Joyce . related field trips to such places as London, No master’s thesis is required. Though students advantage of all that Bread Loaf offers, including Stratford-upon-Avon, and Bath. The cosmo- have 10 years to complete the degree, they ordi- membership in the Bread Loaf Teacher Network, Classes are small (six to eight students each), and politan city of Oxford is home to many parks, narily take two units per summer and finish the and may elect to pursue a degree, as long as they most include individual tutorials in addition to museums, shops, and places of historical and degree in four to five summers. are in good academic standing. Credits earned seminar meetings. contemporary interest. at the School of English are generally eligible for 6 BLSE SUMMER 2016 7 transfer to other graduate institutions as long as the courses are not to be counted toward a Bread KEN MACRORIE Loaf degree. WRITING CENTERS COURSE LOAD Each of the Bread Loaf campuses runs Each unit is equivalent to three semester hours a writing center staffed by trained or four and one-half quarter hours of graduate Bread Loaf students . The centers were credit. Classes at the U.S. campuses are valued established in honor of Ken Macrorie, at one unit each; Oxford classes are valued at a leader in the field of writing and two units, one of which is constituted by inde- education . Peer readers at each center pendent study.