2023 BUCH Student Awards Recipients
Undergraduate Student Awards The Dean Elsbeth Melville Latin Prize Kit Houng Li Classical Studies The John Oddy Memorial Award Vivian Dai Classical Studies Mairead Downes Classical Studies & History Aarohi Goel Classical Studies Anna Rafferty English & American Studies Emma Rits Biology & Mathematics The Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award Nathaniel Ceus Philosophy Christopher James […]
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 […]
BU Humanists at Work: Meet Timothy Clark
“The field is changing, and you might be surprised by how it illuminates or gives you new perspectives about the modern world,” says Timothy Clark, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies. While Clark acknowledges that “sitting around reading Latin and thinking big thoughts” is still a “valuable part of the classical studies discipline,” the associated […]