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.

Jonathan J. Arnold, Ph.D

Associate Dean, Honors College
jon-arnold@utulsa.edu

Jonathan Arnold is an ancient and medieval historian and a Latinist. His research focuses on the late antique and early medieval West, particularly Gaul and Italy. He is especially interested in the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire and issues of identity in the 5th and 6th centuries. Arnold is the author of Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration, co-editor of A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy (Brill, 2016), and is currently preparing a select translation of Magnus Felix Ennodius for the Translated Texts for Historians series by Liverpool University Press.