1998
UAS NEWS RELEASE ARCHIVES
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September
10, 1998 The Bread Loaf School of English has named the University of Alaska Southeast Juneau as it's fourth permanent campus. The announcement was made by Dr. James Maddox, the Bread Loaf director, during his recent Juneau visit. Bread Loaf is a graduate school of English at Middlebury College in Vermont. UAS joins the main Bread Loaf campus in Vermont and two other campuses at Oxford University and in New Mexico. The Bread Loaf master's degree program is designed for teachers and those interesting in writing and literature. "This designation is very important for UAS, according to Dean of Faculty John Pugh, "because we now have one of the most prestigious programs in the country housed here in Southeast Alaska." Maddox said UAS Juneau was selected as a permanent Bread Loaf campus for several reasons. "Bread Loaf is already a national institution, drawing teachers from most of the 50 states. We have sought to reflect that national scope by extending our campuses beyond Vermont, first in New Mexico and now in Alaska." Bread Loaf Institutes have been held on the Juneau campus for the past two years. "Both of them were howling successes," he said. In addition, Maddox said, the Juneau campus was appropriate because Bread Loaf has attracted many Alaska teachers in previous years. Between 70 and 80 students are expected on the Juneau campus next summer. Already nearly 50 current Bread Loaf students have said they would attend according to Maddox. "I think we're going to have a full house our very first year here." The Bread Loaf summer program in Juneau runs six weeks beginning in late June. Students live in campus housing and take their meals on campus. "A very special kind of person attends Bread Loaf as a student," Maddox said. "They're people willing to give up their entire summers for really hard academic work. And by the same token we draw an astonishing faculty each summer. Not only are they nationally known, but they are also teachers interested in bridging that great chasm between higher education and K-12." (UAS Bread Loaf 2 of 2) Summer 1998 Bread Loaf classes on the UAS Juneau campus include the following: Sustaining Indigenous Languages, taught by Courntey Cazden, professor emeritus at Harvard Alaska, Writing in Its Place, taught by John Elder of Middlebury College Shakespeare, taught by Emily Bartels of Rutgers Native American and Native Alaskan Literature, taught by Lucy Maddox of George Washington University Writing for Publication, taught by Andrea Lunsford of Ohio State The Bible as Literature, taught by Kevin Dunn of Tufts University Performance and the Interpretation of Literary Texts, taught by Cindy Rosenthal of the Bread Loaf acting ensemble "We are skimming the cream off the Bread Loaf faculty to come here," Maddox said. "These are going to be very exciting courses." For information about Bread Loaf or an application packet contact: Bread Loaf School of English Sunderland Language Center Middlebury College Middlebury, VT 05753 (802) 443-5418
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