International Conference Examines Threats to Lobster Population
When people think about the effects of climate change, they’re probably not immediately wondering how the world’s warming will affect the sea crustacean we know as the lobster. But that was a central concern for the keynote speakers and the researchers who presented at the 11th International Conference and Workshop on Lobster Biology and Management, […]
CGS Dean Shares General Education Insights with a Global Audience
From California to Chile to Saudi Arabia — over the last semester, Dean Natalie McKnight has been sharing CGS’ knowledge on assessment and Capstone projects all across the globe In January, at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in San Francisco, California, Dean McKnight spoke on a panel of college […]
Meg Tyler Publishes Chapter in The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances
CGS Associate Professor of Humanities Meg Tyler recently published a book chapter and several poems. The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances (Notre Dame Press, 2016) examines the later poetry of Seamus Heaney. Professor Tyler’s chapter takes a look at how the pressures of the terror attacks on September 11th affected Heaney’s formal choices. Tyler’s chapter also considers […]
BU Professors Examine Two Popular Holidays
St. Patrick’s Day has become a huge day for celebrating here in the United States. But why? In an interview with WalletHub, Associate Chair and Social Sciences Senior Lecturer John Mackey takes a closer look at this question and provides some historical context as to how St.Patricks Day came to be such a huge celebration. […]
Renstrom Publishes Chapter in Critical Insights: Isaac Asimov
CGS Lecturer of Rhetoric Joelle Renstrom recently published a chapter in Critical Insights; Isaac Asimov (Salem Press, 2017). As a researcher of science fiction and technology, Renstrom took a look at robot fiction in her Asimov chapter, “Morality in Asimov: Laws of Robotics vs. Laws of Humanics.” Renstrom’s chapter examines Asimov and the Frankenstein complex, or humans’ fear […]
A Look at Undergraduate Research: First Wives and Marriage in British Novels
This post is part of a series that profiles the faculty-undergraduate research partnerships offered through the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning. To learn more, please contact the Center at citl@bu.edu. A married woman abandons her husband and child to elope with a suitor who jilts her. A woman suffers hallucinations after she is suspected […]
Hallstein Edits Special Issue of Women’s Studies in Communication
D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, associate professor of rhetoric at BU College of General Studies, has edited a special issue of Women’s Studies in Communication, a journal that provides a feminist forum for diverse research, reviews, and commentary addressing the relationships between communication and gender. Due to her expertise in the rhetoric around motherhood and mothering–in particular, […]
R. Sam Deese Publishes Poetry Volume, Surf Music
R. Sam Deese, lecturer of social sciences, has published his first full-length volume of poetry, Surf Music (Pelekinesis, 2017). Robert Pinsky, one of American’s “foremost poet-critics,” calls it “the work of an athletic, adaptable mind and an enterprising, distinctive listener.” Acclaimed poet and translator David Ferry describes it as “a cascade of observation and pleasure […]
CGS Course Probes Economic Realities of Motherhood
Recently featured in the BU Today series “One Class One Day,” Dr. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein’s Cultural Constructions of Motherhood course helps students to realize motherhood’s ever increasing economic costs. Hallstein, associate professor of rhetoric at the College of General Studies, begins her discussion section with a reference to feminist Simone de Beauvoir, who wrote, “No […]
Q&A with Megan Sullivan: New Children’s Book on Parental Incarceration
Associate Dean Megan Sullivan has published a children’s book on parental incarceration: Clarissa’s Disappointment: And Resources for Families, Teachers and Counselors of Children of Incarcerated Parents. Drawing from the research she did for Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact (co-edited with Denise Johnston and published by Routledge in 2016), Sullivan has written a book that highlights a child’s […]