Holly Schaaf

Holly Connell Schaaf is a Senior Lecturer at Boston University with a focus on literature and pedagogy. She is affiliated with the Department of English and actively engages in interdisciplinary teaching and research.

• Ph.D., Boston University (English, 2014)
• M.A., Boston University (English, 2005)
• B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst (English, 2003)

Her research spans Irish, Scottish, and English literature, alongside experiential learning, ecocriticism, and ESL/composition pedagogy. She integrates fieldwork and cross-disciplinary collaboration into courses like The World in a Pond, where ESL and NES students explore local environments through diverse writing styles. Her classes also emphasize animal behavior studies in urban contexts and interdisciplinary explorations of cognition in Kinds of Minds.