Adam Sweeting
Acting Chair, Humanities; Associate Professor, Humanities, College of General Studies
Adam Sweeting’s writing and research interests focus on the overlap of natural and cultural forces in American life, with a particular focus on bringing humanities disciplines into conversations about global climate change. In 2005, he was co-editor of Coming into Contact: New Essays in Ecocriticism (Athens: University of Georgia Press).
His most recent book, Beneath the Second Sun: A Cultural History of Indian Summer, explores the numerous ways that Indian summer weather has been experienced and portrayed in poetry, folklore, painting, and the popular imagination.
Adam’s first book, Reading Houses and Building Books: Andrew Jackson Downing and the Architecture of Popular Antebellum Fiction examined the relationship between garden writing, architecture, and fiction in the nineteenth century.
In 2006 he was honored as the Boston University United Methodist Church Scholar/Teacher of the Year; in 2009 he received the Peyton Richter Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching.
Adam has also been active in University governance, having served as Chair of the Boston University Faculty Council from 2010-2012. As Chair of the Faculty Council I served as an ex officio member of the BU Board of Trustees.