About
Blaine Greteman, Ph.D., is dean of the Kendall College of Arts & Sciences and the Honors College at The University of Tulsa, where he is also a professor of English. His teaching and research range from creative nonfiction writing to Renaissance book history, poetry and drama, including Milton and Shakespeare. After leaving Oxford, where he attended on a Rhodes Scholarship, he became a writer for Time magazine, and he continues to write for popular publications such as Slate, The Week and The London Review of Books. Topics of particular interest include AI and education, the value of the humanities and the importance of colleges of arts and sciences for civil society. He was formerly a faculty member and chair at the University of Iowa, and has made a priority of student-centered learning, first-generation student support and faculty development.
Awards and honors
- Rhodes Scholarship
- Stanford Humanities Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Education
- B.A., English, Oklahoma State University
- M.Phil., University of Oxford
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Renaissance Literature
- Shakespeare
- Milton
- Creative Nonfiction Writing
- Journalism
