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ENGL 2133

Studies in Narrative · 16 instructors on record · 34 sections

How the curve score is built

76Teaching87 raw · 48th percentile of BC classes

±0Easiness adjustmenteasiness 78 · 59 raw workload · lighter than 52% of BC classes

76Curve scorethe teaching curve ±0 for the workload · at most ±6 either way

Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Lighter work than 52% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of

87BC evaluations34 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Spring 2026

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.

How is this worked out?

That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.

What the challenge rank is made of

58thMore challenging than 58% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

92BC — “Intellectually Challenging”34 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question. It is not a measure of difficulty, grading or workload.

How is this worked out?

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

48thMore work than 48% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

59BC — “Workload”34 records · raw score out of 100

One of Boston College's five workload bands, not a number of hours. Higher means more work, not worse.

How is this worked out?

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

In this class, students will learn to analyze narrative prose across a wide range of genres, styles, and historical periods. Studies in Narrative will also develop students' critical writing skills, preparing them for upper-division English courses.Course ObjectivesTo be introduced to and learn to interpret a variety of narrative forms and techniquesTo learn to analyze narratives with reference to the social contextshistorical, geographic, and otherwisein which they have been composed and transmittedTo continue to hone students' abilities in close reading, writing about literature, and oral discussion in the classroom

The board

16 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3

Find an instructor among the 16Filters the rows below. Positions are always against the whole class, so a rank does not change when the list is narrowed.

Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. 5 of the 16 rows carry a mark saying so.

Rank	Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge	RMP overall
1	Carlo RotellaProfessor · English	9298 raw · 4 records	68−2 to the score	76th	1006 ratings · all classes
2	Aeron HuntAssociate Professor · English	9297 raw · 3 records	68−2 to the score	65th	867 ratings · all classes
3	Laura TannerProfessor · English Provisional	9196 raw · 2 records	78±0 to the score	65th	9412 ratings · all classes
4	Maia McAleaveyAssociate Professor; Director of English Literature Core · English	8594 raw · 3 records	68−2 to the score	40th	966 ratings · all classes
5	Colleen TaylorAssistant Professor, English & Irish Studies · English Provisional fewer records	97100 raw · 1 record	68−2 to the score	88th	—no page
6	Robert StantonAssociate Professor; Director, M.A. Program · English Provisional	8393 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	48th	1004 ratings · all classes
7	Christopher BoucherProfessor of the Practice · English Provisional fewer records	8594 raw · 1 record	—	41st	9411 ratings · all classes
8	Jovonna JonesAssistant Professor, English and African & African Diaspora Studies · English Provisional	8089 raw · 1 record	84+2 to the score	30th	—no page
9	Kalpana SeshadriProfessor · English Provisional	7588 raw · 1 record	68−2 to the score	42nd	5210 ratings · all classes
10	Lauren WilwerdingAssistant Professor of the Practice · English Provisional fewer records	7387 raw · 1 record	68−2 to the score	60th	863 ratings · all classes
11	James SmithProfessor of English & Irish Studies · English	7488 raw · 3 records	68−2 to the score	65th	—no page
12	Min SongProfessor; Department Chair · English Provisional fewer records	6882 raw · 1 record	68−2 to the score	25th	7014 ratings · all classes
13	Frances RestucciaProfessor · English	7386 raw · 3 records	68−2 to the score	65th	6213 ratings · all classes
14	Rebekah MitseinAssociate Professor; Assistant Chair · English Provisional	7184 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	58th	964 ratings · all classes
15	Thomas Kaplan-MaxfieldAssociate Professor of the Practice · English Provisional fewer records	7084 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	26th	—no page
16	Robert LehmanAssociate Professor · English	7286 raw · 4 records	65−3 to the score	64th	965 ratings · all classes

All 16 instructors listed.

10 of 16 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row. The RateMyProfessors column is an instructor's overall figure across everything they teach, not a figure about this class.

How this board is built and ordered

Positions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.

Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Curve is the instructor's score for THIS class only, ranked against every instructor we hold and printed back out of 100, with the raw BC average underneath it; nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Easiness is an adjustment on top of it, worth up to about ±6 — BC's workload item, ranked and turned over, so a lighter section gains and a heavier one loses, while an ordinary one changes nothing — and each row prints the adjustment, signed. The board is ordered on the same figure it prints, adjusted for how many records back it. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item shown as a rank against every class we hold; students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it is not a measure of difficulty or grading, and it is never marked better or worse.

That site has no course dimension, so its figure is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.

The line

All 13 items · means across 34 records

Instructor4

Course3

Feedback3

Workload & Challengenot ratings

Bars are ranks, not raw scores. Nothing here is graded good or bad.

What each item asks

Explains Clearly: The instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
Available: The instructor was available for help outside of class.
Motivating: The instructor motivated me to do my best work.
Sparks Interest: The course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
Organized: The course was well organized.
Clear Goals: The learning objectives for the course were clear.
Useful Later: What I learned is applicable beyond this course.
Assignments: Assignments and exams contributed to my learning.
Fast Feedback: I received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
Useful Feedback: The feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
Workload: How much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.
Challenge: The course was intellectually challenging.
Attendance: Attending class was necessary to do well in this course.

Why these numbers are curved

Both the number and the bar are the rank against every comparable record we hold, printed back out of 100. BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so on the raw scale every cell here would read in the high eighties and every bar would be nearly full — thirteen numbers that tell you nothing. Each cell prints its raw BC figure and its percentile underneath, so nothing is hidden by the transform. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

34 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
James Smith	Spring 2026	01	100	96	60
Laura Tanner	Spring 2026	02	93	87	40
Christopher Boucher	Spring 2026	03	94	91	—
Lauren Wilwerding	Spring 2026	04	87	82	60
Aeron Hunt	Fall 2025	01	97	92	60
Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield	Fall 2025	02	80	73	60
Carlo Rotella	Fall 2025	03	97	93	60
Frances Restuccia	Spring 2025	01	83	86	60
Colleen Taylor	Spring 2025	02	100	95	60
James Smith	Spring 2025	03	85	87	60
Robert Lehman	Spring 2025	04	90	82	80
Aeron Hunt	Fall 2024	01	97	89	60
Maia McAleavey	Fall 2024	02	94	86	60
Carlo Rotella	Fall 2024	03	95	91	60
Jovonna Jones	Spring 2024	01	89	86	40
Carlo Rotella	Spring 2024	02	99	98	60
Kalpana Seshadri	Spring 2024	03	88	85	60
Laura Tanner	Spring 2024	04	100	97	60
Robert Lehman	Fall 2023	01	80	74	—
Frances Restuccia	Fall 2023	02	87	87	—
Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield	Fall 2023	03	88	79	—
Robert Lehman	Spring 2023	01	88	77	60
Aeron Hunt	Spring 2023	02	98	94	60
James Smith	Spring 2023	04	77	73	60
Rebekah Mitsein	Fall 2022	01	79	79	60

Showing the first 25.

How to read this board

Instructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.