Boston University

Literature

Jessica Kent

Classes

One Class, One Day: Studying Comics as Literature

June 27, 2017

Creative Writing

Robert Lowell Poetry Reading: Prize-Winning Poet Tom Sleigh

April 13, 2017

Boston University alumni and Author Peter Ho Davies

Arts & Culture

Peter Ho Davies Explores Chinese American History

March 16, 2017

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Arts & Culture

Jennifer Haigh Reads Tonight at the Castle

November 9, 2016

Paul Beatty (CAS’84, GRS’87) receiving the Man Book Prize

Literature

Man Booker Prize Goes to Paul Beatty

October 27, 2016

Bob Dylan

Arts & Culture

Bringin’ the Literature Nobel Back Home

October 14, 2016

Rita Dove

Poetry

Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading: Rita Dove

October 6, 2016

Robert B. Parker has been called the “dean of American crime fiction.”

Literature

Five Famous Alums: Writers

July 20, 2016

Michael Zank, Dorothy Kelly, Sanjay Krishnan

Humanities

BUCH Fellowships Awarded to Nine Faculty

June 14, 2016

Portrait of College of Arts and Sciences Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Associate Professor Erin Murphy

Literature

Metcalf Winner Murphy Breathes Life Into Classic Lit

May 9, 2016

C. D. Wright

University News

Lowell Poetry Reading to Pay Tribute to C. D. Wright

April 13, 2016

Michael Brokos

Faculty

BU’s Literary Lights Burn Bright

April 5, 2016

Anna Henchman

Students

Looking at Children’s Lit in a New Way

February 23, 2016

Junot Diaz

Arts on Campus

Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Junot Diaz Reads Tonight

October 26, 2015

Yusef Komunyakaa

Literature

Lowell Poetry Reading Features Pulitzer Winner Tonight

October 15, 2015

Professor Jack Matthews

Arts & Culture

Why Harper Lee’s Watchman Matters

July 31, 2015

Samuel Hammer, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Boston University College of General Studies, and Meg Tyler, poet and associate professor of humanities at Boston University College of General Studies

Accolades

Two CGS Professors Win Fulbright Awards

July 30, 2015

Eve Bridburg at the Grub Street creative writing workshop offices

Books

Writing Your Way to a Better You

July 13, 2015

Dick Lehr, faculty member at Boston University

Literature

A Literary Lunch Break and an ICA Screening

May 29, 2015

BU’s first Mellon New Directions fellow, Wiebke Denecke, will travel across East Asia researching Classical Chinese, the region’s forgotten lingua franca. Photo by Tim Gray

History

Reclaiming a Common Language

April 28, 2015

Reclaiming a Common Language