Associate Director Margarita Guillory Speaks at 2023 Gitner Lecture
The annual Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family College of Arts & Sciences Lecture is designed to highlight current CAS faculty members, in any field, whose teaching and research addresses topics of major importance for the broad interest and benefit of the BU community. In 2023, the Gitner Lecture explored the question “What does it mean […]
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 […]
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, […]
Celebrating Humanities Book Publications in AY 21-22
We hope you enjoy our booklet featuring recent humanities publications by BU faculty. This catalogue represents the broad scope of work in the humanities in our community. We are inspired by the breadth of these publications, which span so many genres, disciplines, methodologies, subjects, languages, and time periods. To learn more about any work in […]
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 […]
AFAM Course Initiative Launches
In June 2020, BUCH published a statement announcing several projects designed to address systemic racism through the lens of humanities methods and disciplines. One such project was a commitment to “provide funding for an initiative that would support the development and teaching of additional courses in African-American humanities areas.” Thanks to collaborative efforts by the […]
Center Hosts First Annual Humanities Book Publication Party
The BU Center for the Humanities and the Office of the Associate Dean of Faculty for the Humanities celebrated recent humanities publications by BU faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences at the first annual Humanities Book Publication Party on Tuesday, February 4. Associate Dean Karl Kirchwey and BU Center for the Humanities Director […]
Summer 2019 PhD Intern’s Experience Leads to New and Unexpected Opportunity
In a featured article recently published on the BU Arts & Sciences website, former PhD intern Rachel Kirby (PhD candidate, American & New England Studies) discusses how her 2019 summer internship at Fenway Park led to a new surprising and exciting opportunity. Read more about Rachel’s experience working for the Red Sox here.
Reflection: Hannah Kinney-Kobre on the Incarceration Film Series
As part of the Center’s efforts to program events on topics of importance to the BU community, we launched a film series on the subject of incarceration and on Thursday, November 21, we hosted our inaugural screening. I conceived, programmed, and planned the event with Christine D’Auria, the Center’s graduate student intern. We’re grateful to […]
Center for the Humanities Welcomes Visiting Scholars
Two visiting scholars, Kyoko Miwa and Laetitia Zecchini, are enriching the BU Center for the Humanities’ intellectual community as they undertake cutting-edge humanities research in our office suite. Miwa and Zecchini come to Boston from Japan and France, respectively. Miwa, sponsored by the American & New England Studies program, comes to BU from Toho University […]