Humanities Faculty Profiles

Humanities Division

Natalie McKnight
Chairman, Division of Humanities; Associate Professor of Humanities
BA (English & drama), Washington College; MA (creative writing), Johns Hopkins University; PhD (English & American literature), University of Delaware
njmck@bu.edu
Research interests: Victorian literature, creative writing, popular culture, gender studies

Cheryl Boots
Assistant Professor of Humanities
BA (honors English), Mount Union College; MA (higher education administration), Michigan State University; MA (American & New England studies), PhD (American and New England studies), Boston University
cboots@bu.edu
Research interests: American literature, American cultural history, sacred and secular music including song writing and performance, sport and American culture

Christopher Coffman
Assistant Professor of Humanities
BA (English & Psychology), Franklin & Marshall College; MA, PhD (English Language & Literature), The Catholic University of America
ccoffman@bu.edu

Christopher Fahy
Assistant Professor of Humanities
BA (English), Bates College; MA (English), PhD (English), Boston University
goodwood@bu.edu
Research interests: 19th-century American literature, religion and literature

John Fawell
Associate Professor of Humanities
BA (general studies in the humanities), MA (comparative literature), PhD (comparative literature), University of Chicago; Dipl A, Universite Paris (France)
jfawell@bu.edu
Research interests: film, Alfred Hitchcock, 19th-century world literature

Neal Leavitt
Assistant Professor of Humanities
leavittn@bu.edu

Joellen Masters
Assistant Professor of Humanities
BA (English literature), Mount Holyoke College; MA (English literature), PhD (English literature), Boston University joellenm@bu.edu
Research interests: Victorian literature and culture; modernism; women’s studies and film criticism

Kevin Stoehr
Associate Professor of Humanities
AB (philosophy), Bowdoin College; MA (philosophy), PhD (philosophy), Boston University
kstoehr@bu.edu
http://people.bu.edu/kstoehr/
Research interests: ethics, existentialism, film studies, and philosophy of film

Adam Sweeting
Associate Professor of Humanities
BA (philosophy), Clark University; MA (American studies), PhD (American studies), New York University
sweeting@bu.edu
Research interests: American literature, architectural history, nature writing

Meg Tyler
Assistant Professor of Humanities
BA (English), Kenyon College; PhD (literature), Boston University
mtyler@bu.edu
Research interests: The history of lyric poetry; 20th-century British, Irish, and American poetry; the familiar essay; the elegy; Seamus Heaney

Jeffery Vail
Assistant Professor of Humanities
BA (English literature), Washington College; MA (English literature), University of Delaware; PhD (English literature), University of Delaware
jwvail@bu.edu
http://people.bu.edu/jwvail/
Research interests: British romantic poetry; 18th-century British literature; 19th-century fiction; modern and postmodern poetry

Robert Wexelblatt
Professor of Humanities
BA (English), University of Pennsylvania; MA (English & American literature), University of Michigan; PhD (English and American literature), Brandeis University
wex@bu.edu
Research interests: 20th-century literature, philosophical problems, fiction, poetry, informal essays

James Wilcox
Associate Professor of Humanities
BA (English), University of Rhode Island; MA (English), PhD (English), Northern Illinois University
jiwilcox@bu.edu