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Ellee Dean
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Ellee Dean
Masters in Art, Middlebury CollegeBachelors in Art, University of Michigan-Ann...
Barbara Desmond
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Barbara Desmond
Bachelors in Art, Wellesley CollegeAll But Dissertation, Yale...
Mercy Carbonell
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Mercy Carbonell
Bachelors in Art, Brown UniversityMasters in Art, Stanford...
Jane Cadwell
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Jane Cadwell
Masters in Letters, Middlebury CollegeMasters in Arts in Teaching, Smith CollegeBachelors in Art, Williams...
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You’ll gain self-knowledge and learn to communicate with clarity through thought-provoking discussions of poetry, fiction, drama and creative...
Children’s Literature
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Children’s Literature
How did you come to be the reader you are? What ideas about the world and its characters did you gain from the stories you read as a child? Why did you read and reread some books? How did illustrations work with words to create the stories you saw and read?...
Spring in Love
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Spring in Love
Literary lovers, it seems, break the rules, exploring the boundaries set by family, society, religion or law. What can we learn from their defiance? Why does such love so often end in disaster? Is love socially constructed or universal? We will explore these...
Poetry and Song
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Poetry and Song
An exploration into the deep and longstanding relationship of poetry and song, this course asks (among other things) how the presence of music alters and enhances our experience of poetry; what qualities make song lyrics “poetic”; and how...
Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Science Fiction and Fantasy
Whether it is Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings or H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, science fiction and fantasy can not only delight our imagination but also help us understand our real, present world more thoroughly. Students in this course will...
Stranger in a Strange Land
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Drawing from a range of essays and literature about travel, this course seeks to equip students with the tools to process and reflect upon their own personal journeys, abroad and otherwise. Through a range of assignments, we will examine closely what it means...