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With courses ranging from Anglo-Saxon poetry to contemporary fiction, English is the most popular major among BU’s humanities departments. The English Department offers BA, MA, and PhD programs led by prominent literary scholars working in every period of English and American literature. The department’s Creative Writing Program features a world-renowned faculty and has produced winners of all the major awards in poetry and fiction. The department publishes Studies in Romanticism, the leading journal on the Romantic movement, and AGNI, an important literary journal.
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Department chair: Maurice S. Lee
Campus address: 236 Bay State Road
Phone: 617-353-2506
Fax: 617-353-3653
Website: www.bu.edu/english
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"The Office of Literature"
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“Globalism, transparency, comprehensiveness”
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Machines and the ethics of miscegenation
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Prognosticating echoes: Race, sound and naturalizing technology
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“Dr. Satan’s Echo Chamber: reggae, technology and the diaspora process,” reprint.
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Eliot, Emerson, and transpacific modernism
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Hissing, bidding, and lynching: participation in Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon and the Melodramatics of American Racism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2018-11-15)Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2016 An Octoroon encouraged Boston theatregoers to hiss and cheer like the audiences for Boucicault’s 1859 The Octoroon, then encouraged them to bid for slaves and scream for a lynching. For some, ... -
Wilson Harris: an ontological promiscuity
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018-08-06)[Excerpt] "I’ve always thought that the problem with the literary and cultural politics of the Anglophone world was that we’ve never had an actual, formal surrealist movement. Yes, there are writers and thinkers in the ...