Yumna Siddiqi

hands down the single greatest class I have taken at middlebury. professor siqqidi is so smart I have never met a more knowledgable person - the books were so interesting and the essays and theory we learnt was great. she is a very fair grader, flexible with deadlines and allows rewrites, but the course is very niche, and if the description doesn't interest you I would not take the class. very theoretical and fills the REC requirement for the English major. I will definitely be taking more classes with her.

hands down the single greatest class I have taken at middlebury. professor siqqidi is so smart I have never met a more knowledgable person - the books were so interesting and the essays and theory we learnt was great. she is a very fair grader, flexible with deadlines and allows rewrites, but the course is very niche, and if the desc …Read more

Though the material in this course was interesting, I wasn't a huge fan of Siddiqi's teaching style. The lectures weren't very clear so learning really was done only on a personal level. By no means a bad class, just not my favorite English class.

The content in this class is extremely important, and Professor Siddiqi is clearly very knowledgeable and excited about it. For a J-term class it was pretty fast paced, and a bit too much work. I felt like I didn't have time to fully digest or understand each reading as I should've had. Would've been good to space them out/cut down a little bit more so that more people would have engaged. She generally did a good job of explaining the argument of each piece, although there were a good amount that could have been clearer. Regardless, I actually really liked this class and found it really rewarding. The readings (both theory and books) were really interesting, and she's come up with a great syllabus. Again, I think she could cut down, but I get the sense that she wants to give as cohesive of an understanding as possible so she wants all the material. She does cold call if nobody is talking. I think she grades pretty fairly, but definitely expects good quality.

The content in this class is extremely important, and Professor Siddiqi is clearly very knowledgeable and excited about it. For a J-term class it was pretty fast paced, and a bit too much work. I felt like I didn't have time to fully digest or understand each reading as I should've had. Would've been good to space them out/cut down a …Read more