Joshua Pederson is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Boston University. His research interests include religion and literature, literary trauma theory, and the creative afterlife of the Bible.

He is the author of two books, Sin Sick: Moral Injury in War and Literature (Cornell UP, 2021) and The Forsaken Son: Child Murder and Atonement in Modern American Fiction (Northwestern UP, 2016), along with a variety of other essays and book chapters. His opinion pieces have appeared in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the LA Times, Harper’s Magazine, and Salon.

For over a decade, he has taught a survey course in ethical philosophy at BU; as time has passed, theories of charity and altruism have taken up more and more space in that course’s curriculum.

Course starting in Spring 2024. Come back soon for more information!