BU Humanists At Work: Karl Kirchwey, Professor of English
Writer, Professor of English, and Director of the Creative Writing Program Karl Kirchwey had an unconventional journey to academia. Unlike most professors, he spent the majority of his career as a curator and arts director, both in the U.S and abroad. His time in arts administration has given him insight into public interaction with the […]
BU Humanists at Work: Anita Savo, Assistant Professor of Spanish
Assistant Professor of Spanish Anita Savo became interested in the medieval period early on when she took a Spanish language survey course offered by her high school. Although the class covered many time periods and authors, she found herself fascinated with medieval Iberian literature because of what she describes as her “double distance” to the […]
BU Humanists at Work: Marc Gasser-Wingate, Associate Professor of Philosophy
You don’t need extensive knowledge of philosophy to recognize the name Aristotle, as he remains a ubiquitous figure in current and past societies. Even so, scholars continue to study his work in an effort to deepen their understanding. Marc Gasser-Wingate, Associate Professor of Philosophy at BU, is one of these scholars, contributing to the ongoing […]
Humanists at Work: Margaret Litvin, Associate Professor of Arabic & Comparative Literature
Although Margaret Litvin went to graduate school to study Arabic, she didn’t expect she would end up as a professor. Now an Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Boston University, Litvin spent her undergraduate years focused on breaking into a different field: journalism. “I worked a lot on my college newspaper, probably more […]
Meet the Fellows: Ying Gong, PhD Candidate in Linguistics
PhD candidate in Linguistics and Dissertation Fellow Ying Gong shares her work on Ursu and highlights the importance of building reciprocal relationships with communities that speak understudied languages.
BU Humanists at Work: Yoon Sun Yang, Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature
“How do I convince English-speaking readers of the value of the literary works that were once celebrated as innovative but no longer easily satisfy contemporary aesthetic tastes?” This was the question at the forefront of Yoon Sun Yang’s mind as she took to writing From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in […]
Meet the Fellows: Constanza Robles, PhD Candidate in History of Art & Architecture
History of Art & Architecture PhD candidate and Graduate Dissertation Fellow Constanza Robles shares how the posters and buildings on display at world fairs reveal political goals and teach us more about Pan-Americanism in this short video.
Meet the Fellows: Paul Katsafanas, Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy and Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellow Paul Katsafanas discusses his public-facing work on Nietzsche and how the idea of devotion might offer an alternative way of living in a fractured society in this short video.
BU Humanists at Work: Catalina Rodríguez, Assistant Professor of Spanish
Assistant Professor of Spanish Catalina Rodríguez’s interests are varied, reaching back to nineteenth-century use of gendered pseudonyms and forward to ecofeminist dystopias. Across this breadth, Rodríguez pulls common threads together to form a picture of a Latin America that is both shaped by the past and looking toward the future. Rodríguez first found herself drawn […]
BU Humanists at Work: Deeana Klepper, Associate Professor of Religion and History
Having “always loved history,” Associate Professor of Religion and History Deeana Klepper found her niche after her work in Europe led her to a PhD in Medieval European History. Undergraduate Center staff member Cheryl Lai sat down with Dr. Klepper to discuss her recent book, Pastoral Care and Community in Late Medieval Germany: Albert of […]