Boston College teaching record

James Najarian

Associate Professor

English

Biography

Director of the Ph.D. program and Editor of Religion and the Arts. Professor Najarian specializes in Romantic and Victorian Poetry and nonfiction prose. His interests include gender and sexuality in literature, poetic influence, and religion in literature. He is currently working on a study of the idea of the 'minor poet' in the nineteenth century.

Official evaluation summary

4.15 / 5

Based on 102 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.

ENGL2131 Studies in Poetry
Instructor rating 4.37 / 5 · Course rating 4.11 / 5 · 46 responses
Taught Spring 2026, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
ENGL1080 Literature Core
Instructor rating 4.04 / 5 · Course rating 3.69 / 5 · 37 responses
Taught Fall 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2022
ENGL2171 Introduction to British Literature and Culture II
Instructor rating 3.93 / 5 · Course rating 3.67 / 5 · 15 responses
Taught Spring 2024
ENGL8887 Introduction to Advanced Research
Instructor rating 3.50 / 5 · Course rating 3.25 / 5 · 4 responses
Taught Spring 2023
ENGL7056 Victorian Crises
Taught Spring 2027

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