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Meet the Students of CGS: Vaishnavi Kothapalli
College of General Studies 2017 Questrom School of Business 2019 Major: Business Administration with a concentration in law What made you decide to attend the College of General Studies? I liked the fact that it gave you that liberal arts foundation and it gave you that background in core subjects that you need... More
Meg Tyler Publishes Chapter in The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances
CGS Associate Professor of Humanities Meg Tyler recently published a book chapter and several poems. The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances (Notre Dame Press, 2016) examines the later poetry of Seamus Heaney. Professor Tyler’s chapter takes a look at how the pressures of the terror attacks on September 11th affected Heaney's formal choices. More
A Look at Undergraduate Research: Tragedy of the Commons & Climate Change
This post is part of a series that profiles the faculty-undergraduate research partnerships offered through the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning. To learn more, please contact the Center at citl@bu.edu. CGS Social Sciences Lecturer R. Sam Deese is writing a book that tackles philosophical and political questions around climate change. More
BU Professors Examine Two Popular Holidays
St. Patrick’s Day has become a huge day for celebrating here in the United States. But why? In an interview with WalletHub, Associate Chair and Social Sciences Senior Lecturer John Mackey takes a closer look at this question and provides some historical context as to how St.Patricks Day came to be... More
Renstrom Publishes Chapter in Critical Insights: Isaac Asimov
CGS Lecturer of Rhetoric Joelle Renstrom recently published a chapter in Critical Insights; Isaac Asimov (Salem Press, 2017). As a researcher of science fiction and technology, Renstrom took a look at robot fiction in her Asimov chapter, "Morality in Asimov: Laws of Robotics vs. Laws of Humanics." Renstrom’s chapter examines Asimov and the... More
A Look at Undergraduate Research: First Wives and Marriage in British Novels
This post is part of a series that profiles the faculty-undergraduate research partnerships offered through the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning. To learn more, please contact the Center at citl@bu.edu. A married woman abandons her husband and child to elope with a suitor who jilts her. A woman suffers hallucinations... More
Hallstein Edits Special Issue of Women’s Studies in Communication
D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein, associate professor of rhetoric at BU College of General Studies, has edited a special issue of Women's Studies in Communication, a journal that provides a feminist forum for diverse research, reviews, and commentary addressing the relationships between communication and gender. Due to her expertise in the rhetoric... More
R. Sam Deese Publishes Poetry Volume, Surf Music
R. Sam Deese, lecturer of social sciences, has published his first full-length volume of poetry, Surf Music (Pelekinesis, 2017). Robert Pinsky, one of American’s “foremost poet-critics,” calls it “the work of an athletic, adaptable mind and an enterprising, distinctive listener.” Acclaimed poet and translator David Ferry describes it as “a... More
CGS Course Probes Economic Realities of Motherhood
Recently featured in the BU Today series "One Class One Day," Dr. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein’s Cultural Constructions of Motherhood course helps students to realize motherhood’s ever increasing economic costs. Hallstein, associate professor of rhetoric at the College of General Studies, begins her discussion section with a reference to feminist Simone... More
CGS Alum Doyle Somerby Is Finishing Hockey Career In Style
CGS alumnus and current Men’s Hockey Team Captain Doyle Somerby (CGS’15, COM’17), is riding a college-career high while guiding the Terriers to a 20-9-3 record so far this season. Somerby always had a passion for the game, growing up in a hockey-centric family. “I was born into a hockey family. My dad coached... More