Associate Professor of English James Najarian has been honored by the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers with its Stephen J. Meringoff Writing Award in Poetry. A specialist in Romantic and Victorian poetry, Najarian won the award for his poems “Kleptomania,” “From the Armenian Quarter,” and “The Frat Boys.” He will have his poems published in either the association’s journal Literary Imagination or its Literary Matters newsletter. Najarian directs the English Department’s PhD program and edits the scholarly journal Religion and the Arts.  Read more in the Boston College Chronicle.