{"id":35974,"date":"2019-02-13T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T21:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=35974"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:07:03","slug":"e-thomas-finan","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/e-thomas-finan\/","title":{"rendered":"E. Thomas Finan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Teaching Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Classical literature and philosophy, the epic, American literature from the Puritans to the present, Renaissance art and literature, transnational Romanticism, literary\/cultural Modernism, and lyric poetry<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Narratives of the real in American literature, American intellectual history, connections between philosophy and literature<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><strong>Book<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/h4>\n<p><em>The Other Side Stories<\/em>. Fieldnor Press, 2010.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2017\/04\/inside-the-ruins-on-derek-walcotts-life-and-work.html\">Inside the Ruins: On Derek Walcott\u2019s Life and Work<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<em>The Millions,\u00a0<\/em>April 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2016\/09\/an-essential-human-respect-reading-walt-whitman-during-troubled-times.html\">An Essential Human Respect: Reading Walt Whitman During Troubled Times<\/a>,\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>The Millions<\/em>, September 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeoffrey Crayon\u2019s Reflections on the Puritanical Pleasures of Candlepin Bowling,\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Prairie Schooner<\/em>, August 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Captivity is Consciousness\u2019: Consciousness and its Revisions in Dickinson\u2019s Poetry,\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>The Emily Dickinson Journal<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>24.2 (2015): 24-45.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrederick Douglass, Defender of the Liberal Arts,\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>The Atlantic<\/em>, April 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The Lords of Life\u2019: Fractals, Recursivity, and \u2018Experience,\u2019\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Philosophy &amp; Rhetoric<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>45.1 (2012): 65-88.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Presentations<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u201cOpening Books: Reading Virginia Woolf on Reading,\u201d Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, Washington, DC, October 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Walden<\/em>\u2019s Experimental Jeremiad,\u201d American Literature Association, Boston, May 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConversations with Longfellow: The Aftershocks of His Poetry,\u201d American Literature Association: Symposium on American Poetry, Savannah, October 2014<\/p>\n<p>Panel Chair, \u201cThe Long\u2026Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Poem,\u201d American Literature Association: Symposium on American Poetry, Savannah, October 2014<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Atlantic Utopias: Rhetorical Response in Emerson and the Puritans,\u201d American Literature Association, Boston, May 2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018It Ain\u2019t in Me No More\u2019: Morphologies of Loss and Change in<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>The Wire<\/em>,\u201d New England Modern Language Association, Boston, March 2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRevolutionary Realism: Emerson, Howells, and the Evolution of the American \u2018Real,\u2019\u201d American Comparative Literature Association, Providence, March 2012<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReflection and Tradition: Some Humanistic Observations on Reforming K-12 English Education,\u201d Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, Denver; October 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisions and Re-Visions: The Whole and the Part in Editing Dickinson and Whitman,\u201d Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, Philadelphia; October 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmily Dickinson and the Captivity of Consciousness,\u201d American Literature Association, Boston; May 2007.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Other Professional Activity and\/or Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Editorial Board, IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13125,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35974"}],"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\/13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35976,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35974\/revisions\/35976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}