Middlebury College’s John Elder named Vermont Professor of the Year

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) have named Middlebury College Professor of Environmental Studies and English and American Literatures John Elder the 2008 Vermont Professor of the Year.

Elder specializes in American nature writing and pastoral literature, as well as Basho and the Haiku Tradition, contemporary poetry and environmental studies. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship and Guggenheim Fellowship. He received his bachelor’s degree from Pomona College and his doctorate from Yale University.

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