Graduate Writing Fellow
Contact
drenca@bu.edu
Office Hours
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Education
2013 B.A. Saint Michael’s College (English and Religion)
2013 Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Saint Michael’s College.
Biography
Dylan joins the Writing Program for the fall of 2025 as a Graduate Writing Fellow teaching WR120: Religion and Pluralism. Alongside the Writing Program, he is a doctoral candidate in sociocultural anthropology at Boston University. Dylan’s interests range widely from language and literature to music, art, and the exploration of issues of global religious diversity and difference. His dissertation builds on a decade of travel, research, and teaching in the Southeast Asian island nation of Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country and one recognized, at the same time, for its strikingly religious plurality. In Indonesia, Dylan has worked closely with the U.S. Fulbright Program and the American-Indonesian Exchange Foundation, initially as an English teacher and later as a Fulbright-Hays fellowship recipient. His current research looks at questions of religious subjectivity, ethics, and belonging as they relate to the lived experiences of kejawen Muslims in Indonesia in a time of Islamic revival.