{"id":19776,"date":"2026-02-04T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=19776"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:12:16","slug":"holly-schaaf","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/profile\/holly-schaaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Schaaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Holly Connell Schaaf\u2019s research focuses on Irish, Scottish, and English literature as well as experiential learning, ecocriticism, and ESL &amp; Composition pedagogy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With Allison Blyler she co-directs Boston Now and co-teaches a Mediated Integration course The World in a Pond in which ESL and NES students team up to visit local sanctuary Hall\u2019s Pond and write about the site in a range of disciplines and styles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Her courses \u201cImagining Animal Minds,\u201d \u201cBoston Animals Now,\u201d and \u201cGlobal Urban Animals Now\u201d enable her to bring her passion for observing and writing about animals into her teaching as her students explore animal behavior at local Boston sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Like these courses, her class \u201cKinds of Minds\u201d also combines readings and writing in multiple disciplines with outside-the-classroom adventures and guest speakers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25775,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19776"}],"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\/19776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19777,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19776\/revisions\/19777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}