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Literature

Video still from the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tv special showing Santa Claus talking to Rudolph with his blinking red nose.

Film & TV

POV: Rudolph the Sad, Bullied, Verbally Abused Red-Nosed Reindeer

December 7, 2018

Breaking Bad character Walter White sits in a recliner with his family wife Skylar and son Walt Jr. in the background.

Academics

Breaking Bad Director Gives CAS Class the Inside Dope

November 30, 2018

CAS Lecturer + author Sigrid Nunez

Faculty

Sigrid Nunez Up For Top Literature Honor

November 14, 2018

a portrait of Marilyn Chin

Literature

Marilyn Chin Headlines Tonight’s Robert Lowell Poetry Reading

October 25, 2018

A black and white portrait of George Sanders

Creative Writing

Lincoln in the Bardo Author George Saunders Reads at BU Tonight

October 9, 2018

Image of the painting HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic by John Wilson Carmichael

Humanities

A Fascination with Disaster

August 15, 2018

Arts & Culture

Mrs. Ahab Meets the Whale

April 19, 2018

Creative Writing

Lyric Poets Headline Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading

April 17, 2018

Arts on Campus

A Conversation with Zadie Smith

March 15, 2018

The Roman Colosseum at Dawn.

Arts & Culture

The Allure of the Eternal City

March 14, 2018

CGS Dean Natalie McKnight

Literature

Office Artifacts: Natalie McKnight

December 14, 2017

Joshua Pederson designed a multi-disciplinary school on trauma after watching several academic fields take up the topic for study.

Religion

How Many Profs Does It Take to Teach Trauma?

November 15, 2017

Poets Mark Doty and Tomas Unger

Poetry

Poet Mark Doty Tonight’s Robert Lowell Poetry Reading Headliner

October 26, 2017

Robert Hudson, Librarian at Boston University

University News

Robert Hudson to Retire as University Librarian

October 19, 2017

Ten Influential Poets throughout the centuries

Arts & Culture

Favorite Poem Project to Celebrate 20th Anniversary

September 11, 2017

Natalie McKnight

Humanities

Please, Sir, I Want Some More Textual Analysis

July 14, 2017

Jessica Kent

University News

One Class, One Day: Studying Comics as Literature

June 27, 2017

Literature

Robert Lowell Poetry Reading: Prize-Winning Poet Tom Sleigh

April 13, 2017

Boston University alumni and Author Peter Ho Davies

Literature

Peter Ho Davies Explores Chinese American History

March 16, 2017

Jennifer Haigh thumbnail

Literature

Jennifer Haigh Reads Tonight at the Castle

November 9, 2016

Jennifer Haigh Reads Tonight at the Castle