Conversation with Emily Gowen, PhD Candidate, English
Interview with Emily Gowen Dissertation Project: “On the Margins: Steady Sellers and the Problem of Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America” At what stage was your dissertation in March 2020? What were your plans at that time? For my dissertation project I study nineteenth-century American reprints, abridgments, adaptations, and graphic reimaginings of seventeenth and eighteenth century European […]
BUCH Director Susan Mizruchi Interviewed on Springer Nature
“Susan Mizruchi on Marlon Brando and Libraries in the Digital Age” brings into focus through-lines in the recent scholarship by the Center’s director, who is also William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities and professor of English at BU. In her 2014 biography of Marlon Brando, Mizruchi explores the mind behind the Hollywood star’s film performances […]
Forum 2019 Panelist Emily Gowen Featured in The New York Times
Congratulations to BU English PhD student and Forum 2019 panelist Emily Gowen, who was featured in an article in this week’s New York Times discussing the issue of teaching texts affected by #MeToo allegations against their authors: Emily Gowen, a literature instructor at Boston University, asked her freshmen to read Mr. Díaz’s short story “The […]
Article Cowritten by Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis Forum Hosts
In conjunction with our fall forum, Susan Mizruchi and Sandro Galea have written a piece for Global Thrive on “How the Humanities Can Help the Opioid Crisis.” They write: “The opioid epidemic is the public health crisis of our time: with 64,000 annual deaths, it has surpassed the peak losses of all other epidemics, including […]