 Professor
Robert Wexelblatt
wex@bu.edu
Teaching
courses as broad as the humanities sequences at the College
not only requires me to speak on a wide variety of subjects
but permits me to get away with writing about them.
I
have been interested in literature, music, film, painting,
and
philosophy since my youth. At the College I am afforded
the invaluable privilege of teaching them all to young
people.
The responsibility of presenting so many arts and disciplines
necessitates perennial learning. Learning provokes
thinking
and thinking can lead to writing.
  I
have published formal essays on American and Continental
literature,
philosophy and pedagogy, as well as various
informal essays. I am interested in and have written
about cultural
figures
from Scott Fitzgerald to Thomas Hobbes,
Socrates to Bertolt Brecht, Albert Camus to Anton Chekhov,
G. B. Shaw to Mary
Shelley, Søren Kierkegaard to Gustave Flaubert.
In short, the habit of being a generalist
is so fixed in me, and so
congenial to my temperament, that I no
longer have any special field.
 While
my scholarly work is important to me and moored most
closely
to my teaching, it makes up less than a third of
my
published writing.
When
I am up to it, I write fiction.
When
I can't help it, I write poems.
  In
1993 Prof. Wexelblatt won the Peyton
Richter Award for
interdisciplinary teaching and in 1983 Prof. Wexelblatt
received the MetCalf
Cup and Prize, Boston University's
highest honor for excellence in teaching.
Read
some of Robert Wexelblatt's stories:
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