{"id":35638,"date":"2019-02-13T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T21:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=35638"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:14:05","slug":"adam-sweeting","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/adam-sweeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Sweeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Teaching Interests<\/h4>\n<p>Interdisciplinary humanities courses involving literature, art history, and philosophy; interdisciplinary approaches to climate change<\/p>\n<h4>Research Interests<\/h4>\n<p>Environmental literature and philosophy; American literature; climate change in contemporary culture<\/p>\n<h4>Selected Publications<\/h4>\n<p><em>Reading Houses and Building Books: Andrew Jackson Downing and the Architecture of Popular Antebellum Literature\u00a0<\/em>(Hanover: University Press of New England).<\/p>\n<p><em>Beneath the Second Sun: A Cultural History of Indian Summer<\/em>\u00a0(Hanover: University Press of New England)<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming Into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice<\/em>, a co-edited collection of essays (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press).<\/p>\n<p><em>Culture and Context: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature<\/em>, 2 volumes. Co-edited with Natalie J. McKnight (San Diego: Cognella Academic Publishing).<\/p>\n<p><em>Energy Use and The Humanities<\/em>, guest editor for a special issue of<em>\u00a0Humanities<\/em>, an online open-source journal.<\/p>\n<h4>Other Professional Activity<\/h4>\n<p>Advisory Board for\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/us\">Conversation US<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0a daily on-line publication that links scholarly research to contemporary issues<\/p>\n<p>Content consultant for Red Line Editorial\u2019s\u00a0<em>Exploring New England<\/em>, a textbook for junior high school students<\/p>\n<p>Former Chair of the Boston University Faculty Council<\/p>\n<p>Former Chair of the Somerville, Massachusetts School Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9762,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35834,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35638\/revisions\/35834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}