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Literature

Paul Beatty (CAS’84, GRS’87) receiving the Man Book Prize

Race

Man Booker Prize Goes to Paul Beatty

October 27, 2016

Bob Dylan

Music

Bringin’ the Literature Nobel Back Home

October 14, 2016

Rita Dove

Creative Writing

Robert Lowell Memorial Poetry Reading: Rita Dove

October 6, 2016

Robert B. Parker has been called the “dean of American crime fiction.”

Literature

Five Famous Alums: Writers

July 20, 2016

Michael Zank, Dorothy Kelly, Sanjay Krishnan

Books

BUCH Fellowships Awarded to Nine Faculty

June 14, 2016

Portrait of College of Arts and Sciences Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Associate Professor Erin Murphy

Education

Metcalf Winner Murphy Breathes Life Into Classic Lit

May 9, 2016

C. D. Wright

Literature

Lowell Poetry Reading to Pay Tribute to C. D. Wright

April 13, 2016

Michael Brokos

Event Preview

BU’s Literary Lights Burn Bright

April 5, 2016

Anna Henchman

Literature

Looking at Children’s Lit in a New Way

February 23, 2016

Junot Diaz

Event Preview

Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Junot Diaz Reads Tonight

October 26, 2015

Yusef Komunyakaa

Literature

Lowell Poetry Reading Features Pulitzer Winner Tonight

October 15, 2015

Professor Jack Matthews

Books

Why Harper Lee’s Watchman Matters

July 31, 2015

Samuel Hammer, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Boston University College of General Studies, and Meg Tyler, poet and associate professor of humanities at Boston University College of General Studies

Accolades

Two CGS Professors Win Fulbright Awards

July 30, 2015

Eve Bridburg at the Grub Street creative writing workshop offices

Arts & Culture

Writing Your Way to a Better You

July 13, 2015

Dick Lehr, faculty member at Boston University

Books

A Literary Lunch Break and an ICA Screening

May 29, 2015

BU’s first Mellon New Directions fellow, Wiebke Denecke, will travel across East Asia researching Classical Chinese, the region’s forgotten lingua franca. Photo by Tim Gray

Literature

Reclaiming a Common Language

April 28, 2015

Queen Anne by James A. Winn

Humanities

Queen Anne Reconsidered

February 6, 2015

Boston University BU, Lowell Lecture reading, Pulitzer winner Sharon Olds, Renee Emerson, poetry

University News

Renowned “Poet of the Personal” to Read Tonight

November 20, 2014

poet Karl Kirchwey, Creative Writing Program director, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences

University News

Award-Winning Poet New Creative Writing Program Director

October 20, 2014

Boston University BU, Chinese author poet Ha Jin, American Academy of Arts and Letters, College of Arts and Sciences CAS professor

Faculty

Ha Jin Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

May 27, 2014

Ha Jin Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters