The blog is taking a break over December, but we’ll be back in January with a new post.

In the meantime, if ASE has been transformative in your professional life, we’d like to consider your story as a future post.

Email us to tell us what made the ‘ASE Difference’.

Taken from the ASE archive, we have this extract from a prize-winning essay by ASE alum Kaylee (Dyson) Stith (Spring 2012, Meredith College) on her love affair with Bath and ASE, and her reflections on it a decade after it was over...

Elon University student Leann Beckham reflects on her experience of the ASE Education Summer School this past year.

(This piece is reproduced from the Elon University website courtesy of its author, Jennifer Strange).

New ASE tutor Leo Faedo, provides this month’s blog, at the end of ASE’s ‘Green Week’.

Here he tells us of his aims and hopes in teaching our new course, Environmental History and Global Activism.

Logan Johnson, a student from this last summer, reflects on what his experience meant to him.

Rob Jones, ASE’s Alumni Association Coordinator reflects on the uniquely broad nature of the programme’s community, and what it is that makes it truly special.

Tyra Smith, a Franklin and Marshall student who studied with us this last semester, reflects on how our Bridgetower Fund gave her the opportunity to go even further afield in her study abroad experience.

New tutor Dr Leila Kamali talks about her first semester teaching ‘Contemporary Black British Literature’ for ASE.

Jonathan Hope, ASE’s Dean and Director, writes about the challenges faced by the study abroad industry in an era of climate crisis, and what ASE is doing to address the programme’s environmental impact.

Lucas Barroso Gonçalves, an alum from this semester’s iF&M first-year programme, was asked to write an Op-ed piece as part of his ‘Conceptualizing Community’ seminar class. He chose to write about ‘buying local’ and found Camden, London, a compelling case study.

In LGBTQ+ History month ASE tutor Evan Hayles Gledhill shares their experience of redesigning and teaching ASE seminar course Queering the Gothic.

With a month left to apply for ASE Summer 2024, Wells Professor and Summer 2023 tutor Dan Rosenberg gets ecstatic about the ekphrastic response of his students to their time in Bath.

As we prepare to say farewell to the Autumn ‘23 students, we thought we’d share this poem, written for our Thanksgiving Dinner by Lane Sillin and Delilah Delgado (both from Williams College).

On the fifth of November for the last 400 years a large part of the English population has watched firework displays, and stood in front of a bonfire, as a scarecrow figure known as Guy is burnt in effigy.

In this piece take from his recent ‘Cultural Lecture Series’ talk, ASE’s Alumni Association Coordinator and tutor, Rob Jones, considers what the night has really been all about, and who Guy Fawkes really is…

One of the great strengths of ASE is how the alumni community bond within and across the semesters and summers, making it a programme that lasts not just for 15 weeks but a lifetime.

In this piece alumni Stephen Weber (Su98, Denison) describes the friendships that bloomed from in our Continuing Education courses, run during the Covid lockdowns.

Amongst the excellent US faculty coming to teach for us this Summer is Mary Kovaleski Byrnes, Senior Lecturer II in Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College. She is also an alum of ASE.

In this piece from our 2019 Alumni Newsletter he reflects on how her time in Bath inspired her book So Long The Sky..

As we look forward to welcoming our second cohort of iF&M students, last year’s faculty - Kevin Brady and Jennifer Redmann, reflect on a successful debut for ASE’s program for first-year students from Franklin and Marshall College.

ASE’s long-standing education programme has been undergoing quite a dramatic series of changes recently, with plans for more. ASE’s new Placements Coordinator, Bill Badley , outlines what’s already happened, and what is to come.

As we welcome our Summer ‘23 cohort, Skidmore professor John Brueggemann describes his experience of teaching in Bath last summer.

When we put together the latest edition of the ASE Alumni News last December, it struck us that it contained a lot of great content from our alums, faculty friends, and staff that would be of wider interest to our partners in the US, prospective students, and perhaps their parents.

We’ve decided that the best way to (re)share these great articles - which include reflections on different aspects of the programme, introductions and farewells from the ASE staff, and fascinating content connected to our courses - was to release them in blog form.

So here we are!