BU Today feature: Kirsten Greenidge Promoted to Associate Professor
This article was originally published on June 25, 2020.
“Each year, these promotions and awards of tenure mark an especially proud moment for the BU community, as we’ve had the pleasure of watching these talented colleagues develop from promising junior faculty into teachers and scholars of national impact and recognition,” says Jean Morrison, BU provost and chief academic officer. “In diverse fields across the University, these faculty members are having demonstrable impact in their disciplines and excelling as teachers in our classrooms and laboratories. We continue to see great things ahead for them and are pleased they have chosen BU as the institution at which to advance their careers.”
Promoted to associate professor, non–tenure track:
Kirsten Greenidge, College of Fine Arts associate professor of playwriting and theatre arts, is a playwright whose works, which examine intersections of race, gender, and class, have been performed at major regional theaters around the country, including Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons in New York and Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company. She has produced dozens of acclaimed plays, two—Milk Like Sugar (2011) and The Luck of the Irish (2012)—have received the Independent Reviewers of New England’s Best New Play award. She is a past recipient of a PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award and the TCG/Edgerton New American Play Award, and has also been honored with an Obie Award. Her adaptation of J. Anthony Lukas’ Pulitzer Prize–winning Common Ground is scheduled to be produced at the Huntington Theatre Company next year.