American Constitutional Law: The First Amendment This course focuses on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the first amendment freedoms of speech, press, and religion. After starting with the ...

James L. Fitzsimmons received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002. He taught at several institutions before coming to Middlebury and has held writing fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks Research ...

Sarah Stroup has taught at Middlebury since 2008 and is the incoming director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research. During her 2025-26 sabbatical year, she was a senior visiting fellow ...

My research focuses on using geochronology, remote sensing, and modeling to understand the timing and rates of surface processes. Much of my work involves cosmogenic dating and optically stimulated ...

Who runs the world? Microbes! I’m a molecular microbial ecologist, meaning I use molecular biological techniques to ask questions and gain insight into microbial ecology. The lab’s current research ...

Professor Morrison began teaching at Middlebury College in 2003, just before completing her Ph.D. in religious studies from Stanford University. She teaches classes on the Buddhist tradition and ...

The 13th annual Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference is a week-long session designed to hone the skills of people interested in producing literary writing about the environment and the natural ...

An introduction to the writing of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction through analysis of writings by modern and contemporary poets and prose writers and regular discussion of student writing.

Chair of the Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese and CV Starr Professor of Chinese ...

Students can pursue full degree programs for a Master of Arts or Masters of Letters in English at the Bread Loaf School of English. The degrees are conferred by Middlebury College, and Bread Loaf ...

Stephen Snyder joined the Japanese Studies department at Middlebury in 2005 and became Dean of Language Schools in 2014.