Faculty

Nuclear Possibilities

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-19T12:44:41-0500

The film House of Dynamite depicts what happens when U.S. leaders have 30 minutes to respond to a nuclear attack.

Reproductive Rights in Vermont

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-19T12:42:32-0500

Several Middlebury faculty members are behind and in front of the camera in the documentary Unintended, which explores Vermont’s historic move to enshrine reproductive rights in its constitution in 2022.

Haunted by History

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-12T14:26:25-0500

The novel Flashlight by Susan Choi has been long-listed for the 2025 Booker Prize.

Loneliness vs. Solitude

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-04-24T12:09:35-0400

Americans are spending more of their time alone, but that doesn’t mean an impending national epidemic of loneliness.

AI in the Classroom

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-04-23T11:48:27-0400

After experimenting with generative AI in the classroom, McGill professor Xander Manshel ’09, MA English ’14 concluded that the quality of AI-assisted student work was not as high as what the students produced themselves.

150 Years Revisited

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-26T15:19:38-0400

The New York Times followed geology professor Jeff Munroe on a backpacking research trip into the Uinta Mountains of Utah to recreate a series of photographs made in 1870 by the U.S. Geological Survey.

To Learn Is to Remember

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-05T12:11:51-0500

Jesse Bowman Bruchac, director of the School of Abenaki, writes about the role of memory in learning and teaching a language, as well as different strategies for strengthening language memory.

Show Some Love to Sharks

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-05T12:11:45-0500

The new Monterey Bay White Sharks website is part of a larger mission to demystify, conserve, and spotlight how majestic—and central to the ocean ecosystem—white sharks are.

Newly Discovered Frost Poem

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-05T12:11:38-0500

“Nothing New,” which Robert Frost wrote in 1918, has been published for the first time in The New Yorker.

New Tricks for Your Mind

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-02-11T12:47:30-0500

Research indicates that approaching your regular day with a new mindset can transform the daily grind, writes philosophy professor Lorraine Besser in The Conversation.