Since 1983, the Lectures in Criticism series has brought renowned humanities scholars to Boston University. BUCH has overseen the series since 2022. Each year it features a fall lecture by a BU faculty member and a spring lecture by an external scholar.
Recent Lectures
- Spring 2026
“Far Fetched: On the Poetry of Walking”
Susan Stewart
Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and Professor of English, Emeritus, Princeton University - Fall 2025
“Towards a Social History of a Sacred City: Epistemological Challenges in Studying Teotihuacan, Mexico”
David Carballo
Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Latin American Studies, Boston University - Spring 2025
“Art in the Shadow of Military Dictatorships in 1980s Nigeria”
Chika Okeke-Agulu
Robert Schirmer Professor of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, Princeton University - Fall 2024
“On the Pleasures and Perils of Personhood: Slavery and Artificial Life”
Louis Chude-Sokei
Professor of English and Joyce Wein Chair in African American & Black Diaspora Studies, Boston University - 2023–24
“The Episodic Reception of Medieval Persian Women Poets”
Sunil Sharma
Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature; Director, Center for the Study of Asia; Director, Global Medieval Studies Program, Boston University
For lectures from 1983 to 2023, see the Lectures in Criticism archive.