1998
UAS NEWS RELEASE ARCHIVES
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June
3, 1998 The Bread Loaf Literature and Writing Institute begins Monday on the UAS campus. About 50 students are registered to take part in the intensive three week program. Students receive graduate credit from the prestigious Middlebury School of English in Vermont As part of the Institute this year a, free public reading series is being offered. Each takes place in Egan Library on the UAS campus. The June Reading Series includes: Thomas Sexton, Tuesday, June 9, at 8 p.m. Sexton is the Alaska Poet Laureate and is the author of five collections of poetry. John Elder, Thursday, June 11, at 8 p.m. Elder teaches literature and environmental studies at Middlebury College and is on-site director of this summer's Bread Loaf Institute at UAS. Sheila Nickerson, Wednesday, June 17, at 8 p.m. Nickerson is a former Alaska Poet Laureate and author of a dozen works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Nora and Richard Dauenhauer, Thursday, June 18, at 8 p.m. The Dauenhauers are writers and Tlingit ethnographers. Nora is internationally recognized for her work in Tlingit oral literature. Richard is a former Alaska Poet Laureate. Emily Bartels, Tuesday, June 23, at 8 p.m. Bartels is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University and is teaching "Shakespeare and the Wilderness" at the Institute. This is the second year the Bread Loaf Institute is being offered on the UAS Juneau campus. "It's a world class opportunity for teachers and writers," according to coordinator Scott Christian. "Bread Loaf is probably the most prestigious school of English in the country." Students chose from three graduate level classes offered: Shakespeare and the Wilderness, Native American Literature, and Writing and Its Sense of Place.
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