About Honors

Honors College Leadership

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Blaine Greteman

Dean, Kendall College of Arts & Sciences and Honors College
918-631-3185
blaine-greteman@utulsa.edu

Blaine Greteman, Ph.D., began his tenure as dean of The University of Tulsa’s Kendall College of Arts & Sciences on July 1, 2024. Greteman earned his doctorate in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. A Rhodes Scholar, Greteman received his master’s in English literature from Oxford after receiving his bachelor’s degree in English literature from Oklahoma State University in 1998.

Greteman’s research uses both traditional and computational analysis to explore early modern book history, poetry, and drama, including Milton and Shakespeare. He has authored two books: “The Poetics and Politics of Youth in Milton’s England” and “Networking Print in Shakespeare’s England.”

A former journalist for TIME Magazine and a prolific writer whose expertise includes the plays of Shakespeare and the poetry of Milton, Greteman also writes for popular publications such as Slate, Newsweek, and The London Review of Books. He is a staunch advocate for the liberal arts and has a keen interest in the rapidly emerging field of artificial intelligence and how AI will affect universities of the future.

Matthew Post, Ph.D.

Interim Director, Honors College
matt-post@utulsa.edu

Matthew Post is responsible for developing programs in liberal arts, classic texts, and character education, focused on fostering vibrant communities dedicated to friendship, excellence, and service to the common good. He was the inaugural director of the first graduate K–12 classical teacher formation program in the U.S., and has founded, developed, supervised, and fundraised for other programs serving education reform. He is an ardent advocate of the renewal of liberal education, working with teachers and schools cross the U.S. and Europe, and teaching courses in literature, philosophy, history, and civics, among other areas. His academic writing focuses on key thinkers such as Plato, Cicero, and Hegel, and his field research examines the relationship between school culture and motivation for virtuous action in a variety of educational institutions, public and private. He has taught in Canada, Japan, and Slovakia in addition to the U.S.