New Books From Faculty Coming This Fall
This fall, the Center is pleased to announce the publication of three new books that received subventions from the Center. In late August, Oxford University Press published Brooke L. Blower‘s (HI) Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper. In her latest book, Blower uses a single […]
CAS Interviews New Director, Juliet Floyd
“I really want to make the case that the humanities are more obviously becoming very fundamental in our world,” says Juliet Floyd. Floyd, who became director of the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH) on July 1, discusses her plans for the Center in this interview .
Center Hosts Annual Humanities Book Publication Celebration
Conversation abounded in CAS on March 23, 2023, as scholars and staff from across humanities and adjacent departments gathered to celebrate humanistic publications by BU faculty published within the last twelve months. The event highlighted 17 humanities publications ranging from monographs to anthologies to two thousand-page volumes.These publications evidenced the importance of the spirit of […]
Celebrating New Humanities Publications by CAS Faculty
The Center for Humanities celebrates 17 recent publications by CAS humanities faculty at a Book Publication Party on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 5:30pm. To attend, please write to buch@bu.edu. The list of publications includes monographs, memoirs, edited volumes, fiction, and other works across a variety of disciplines. To learn more, click on each book’s […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Maia Gil’Adí, Assistant Professor of English
Assistant Professor of English Maia Gil’Adí is a big horror fan, but her studies of the genre reach beyond the typical slasher flick. “I’m a consumer of all types of horror from the most basic to the most disgusting. I love it all,” Gil’Adí said, “but the horror that I study isn’t necessarily the type […]
Kate Snodgrass and the Boston Playwright’s Theatre
When Kate Snodgrass came to BU to study fiction and playwriting in 1987, there was no playwriting program in which she could enroll. Instead, Snodgrass enrolled in a one-year, partially-funded MA program in Creative Writing. Today, BU boasts a three-year, fully-funded MFA program in Playwriting, lauded as one of the best in the nation and […]
Distortion and Subversion: Punk Rock Music and the Protests for Free Public Transportation in Brazil (1996-2011)
No one expects to hear punk rock blasting from an academic building on quiet Bay State Road. However, this sound was not so unusual within the context of the event that took place at the Initiative on Cities on November 14, 2022: a launch celebration for Assistant Professor Rodrigo Lopes de Barros’s (Romance Studies, LAS, […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Stephanie Sheintul
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Stephanie Sheintul may be new to BU, but she’s ready to jump right into difficult conversations surrounding contemporary topics, and she encourages students to do the same. Sheintul recently received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she also acted as an instructor for undergraduate courses on contemporary […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Roshaya Rodness
“You raise your camera to capture those dramatic clouds; you look good this evening and film yourself out with friends. You tap the shutter and the images appear, but they look nothing like what you just saw.” Snapping a quick photo, whether you are using a professional camera or your smartphone, can lead to these […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Jennifer Cho
For Visiting Assistant Professor in English Jennifer Cho, writerly identity is not confined to paper, and social identity is never left behind at the doors to the classroom. The two identities are inseparable, both in Cho’s approach to teaching and in her research. This view of fundamentally interwoven identities lends itself to Cho’s examinations of […]