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Literature

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Awards

Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Six BU Researchers and Scholars

April 17, 2025

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Research News

Brink Bites: Studying Cigarette Restrictions, the Life of a Famed Poet, and Shifting Attitudes Toward Capitalism

March 4, 2025

Professorship Awards

Career Development Professorships Awarded to Five BU Researchers

September 26, 2024

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2023 in Review

Best of The Brink 2023: 10 Life-Changing Inventions, Amazing Discoveries, and Surprising Findings from BU Researchers

December 11, 2023

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Education

How Dickens and Other Authors Shaped Attitudes to Education—with Lasting Impacts

December 5, 2023

Book History

Video: Why the UK and US have Different Titles for the same Book

November 6, 2023

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Zombies

Meet the BU Professor Building an Online Zombie Movie Archive

October 27, 2023

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World War II

Broadway Singers, a Nazi Sympathizer, and the Doomed Flight of the Yankee Clipper

September 5, 2023

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Expert Take

This Queer Japanese Novelist Disrupted Beliefs about Sexuality, Love, and Friendship

June 12, 2023

Literature

Trent Masiki’s Afroethnic Renewal: Six Afro-Latino Memoirists You Should Know

September 15, 2021

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Return to Campus Labs

BU Unveils First Phase of Campuswide Research Recovery Plan

May 6, 2020

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Anthropology

Digitizing Ajami, a Centuries-Old African Script

January 23, 2020

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Accolades

Drawing Modern Inspiration from Ancient Texts

April 1, 2019

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Humanities

A Fascination with Disaster

August 15, 2018

Samuel Hammer, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Boston University College of General Studies, and Meg Tyler, poet and associate professor of humanities at Boston University College of General Studies

Accolades

Two CGS Professors Win Fulbright Awards

July 30, 2015

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Humanities

Queen Anne Reconsidered

February 6, 2015

Queen Anne Reconsidered