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Boston College teaching record

Allison Adair

Professor of the Practice

English

Official BC profile

Biography

Allison Adair specializes in creative writing, with a focus on poetry and flash fiction and a special interest in digital humanities. At Boston College, she teaches the First-Year Writing Seminar (Pop Culture & Protest, American Anti-Intellectualism); multi-level workshops in poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction; Literature Core courses (Truth-Telling in Literature, Travel Literature, American Experiments); Studies in Poetry; and the electives The Poetics of Rap and Why Poetry Matters.

Official evaluation summary

4.16 / 5

Based on 269 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Courses taught

Ratings are this instructor’s response-weighted averages from Boston College’s official course evaluations, on a scale of 1 to 5.

Data freshness

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