Brandon Baird

Brandon Baird is one of the most understanding and kind professors you will find at Middlebury College and an underacknowledged gem in the Luso-Hispanic department. The courseload is highly manageable, Baird makes his classes highly engaging and is good and facilitating conversations and building them based on the class' engagement with the reading. Readings and class material build up very clearly from one another. Doing readings prior to class is highly recommended because lectures build off of those readings. Class is driven by open and closed group discussions and a class full of strictly lecturing is rare. Baird made having an 8 am bearable, almost enjoyable.

Brandon Baird is one of the most understanding and kind professors you will find at Middlebury College and an underacknowledged gem in the Luso-Hispanic department. The courseload is highly manageable, Baird makes his classes highly engaging and is good and facilitating conversations and building them based on the class' engagement w …Read more

I took this newly added course last semester and had a great time. Professor Baird was very understanding of our diverse backgrounds and needs as native speakers. This course allowed us to learn more about proper grammar and more which heritage speakers may not specifically learn naturally learning the language at home.

This is a fantastic course for anyone who is multilingual. This course dives into what it means to be bilingual and how bilingualism can occur in many different contexts. The material is very interesting and Baird is a great professor. His lectures are very clear and concise, and his class is incredibly structured; there are no surprises and you know what to expect going into every week, which normally consists of one day of lecturing and one day of leaded discussion. He is also very accommodating and fair about deadlines. I can recommend this to anyone who speaks Spanish and is interested in multilingualism.

This is a fantastic course for anyone who is multilingual. This course dives into what it means to be bilingual and how bilingualism can occur in many different contexts. The material is very interesting and Baird is a great professor. His lectures are very clear and concise, and his class is incredibly structured; there are no surpr …Read more