Assistant professor attends prestigious conference
Eraldo Souza dos Santos, assistant professor of criminology, law and society, has been selected to be part of the 100th Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, called the oldest and most prestigious writer's conference in the country by the New Yorker.
“It is an honor to become part of a community of which authors who have profoundly inspired me, such as Toni Morrison and Percival Everett, have also been a part of in the past century,” dos Santos says.
He will spend 10 days, Aug. 13-23 in Ripton, Vermont, working on the book he’s writing about his mother’s life.
The Bread Loaf Conference is the latest artist residency for dos Santos. His summer will be full with three others — Yaddo, the Blue Mountain Center and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts — taking place this summer.
The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, founded in 1926,features small-group workshops with some of the world’s most notable writers and translators.
Dos Santos’ book about his mother will tell the compelling story about how she was sold into slavery by her own sister and what happened to her afterward.
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