Stories about "Kirk Read"
Faculty and students find low cost, versatility in open educational resources

Thursday, October 24, 2019 2:36 pm

Faculty, staff, and students across Bates are using advances in information technology to make course materials cheaper and more accessible.

13 language-learning tips from Bates faculty and students

Friday, September 21, 2018 9:31 am

Immerse yourself, tell stories, listen to music, and "plagiarize."

Look What We Found: Kirk Read’s methuselah bottle of champagne

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 1:59 pm

A shuttered shop’s model bottles are now applaudable props for pedagogical dramas.

12 writing tips from Bates students and professors

Thursday, November 2, 2017 11:38 am

“Nothing that comes after the phrase ‘throughout history’ is true.”

Video: Bates professors say what they’re excited to teach (2015)

Friday, September 18, 2015 9:42 am

As they gather for the academic procession for Convocation, Bates professors say what they're excited to teach.

Faculty promotions, 2011: Kirk Read

Friday, May 20, 2011 10:06 am

Promoted to full professor in May 2011, Kirk Read is professor of French and chair of the Division of Humanities. A specialist in early modern French literature, he concentrates on pre-Revolutionary France and Francophone North Africa. Released in April by Ashgate Publishing, his Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories of Gender and Reproduction investigates gender, sex and sexuality in medical discourse and across various literary genres building on an acute knowledge of early modern gender and culture as well as contemporary gender theory.

They ran, not walked, to the debut Arts Crawl

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 12:57 pm

There's no telling what new inspirations will come from Bates' first-ever Arts Crawl, held Jan. 28. This Friday evening smorgasbord of the arts at Bates, performing and literary and visual, empowered the art makers and showed the campus the breadth and depth of creative work that happens here.

Faculty photographers exhibit their work in Chase Hall Gallery

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:00 am

Three Bates College faculty members who share a passion for photography have mounted their images in an exhibit titled "After Image" in Chase Hall Gallery, 56 Campus Ave. Open to the public at no charge from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, the exhibition continues through May 15.

Brass Quintet to perform

Wednesday, May 15, 1996 11:34 am

Music by Rimsky-Korsakoff, Mahler, Bach and Gershwin will be on the program Sunday, May 19, when the Bates College Brass Quintet performs in a free public concert at 2 p.m. in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall.