{"id":19605,"date":"2026-02-02T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=19605"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:16:11","slug":"allison-blyler","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/profile\/allison-blyler\/","title":{"rendered":"Allison Blyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Allison Blyler teaches WR 120\/152 \u201cPublic Gardens and Urban Wilds: Boston\u2019s Natural History,\u201d which explores the city\u2019s origins, geography as destiny, organic architecture, and urban green space, and WR120\/150 \u201cAmerican Homestead,\u201d which examines land, wilderness and place attachment in America through the lens of frontier-borderlands mythologies. Since the Fall of 2019 she has served as co-director of the Boston Now curricular initiative with Holly Schaaf, with whom she also teaches \u201cThe World in a Pond: Observing Nature in Boston and Beyond\u201d, a Mediated Integration course which addresses local\/global connections and urban nature, and centers around place-based\/experiential learning in the form of excursions to Brookline\u2019s Hall\u2019s Pond Sanctuary. She has also served as a Writing Associate at Sargent College since 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Allison has been teaching at BU since 1999. When not keeping late office hours, she enjoys hiking long distances and hanging out on the banks of the Charles. She is a children\u2019s book author and is working on a book of psychogeographical poetry based on her experiences in the urban wild.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25775,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19607,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19605\/revisions\/19607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}