Contact Information

Office: 3027 JFSB

Phone: 422-1855

E-mail: mark.burns@byu.edu

Courses Taught:
Hum 101: Intro to the Humanities
Hum 261: American Hum. to 1876
Hum 262: American Hum. 1876 on
Hum 350: Theory

Mark Burns is originally from Buffalo, New York and attended BYU as an undergraduate and Masters student, studying both comparative literature and English. After getting married on his way to a Ph.D. program in Boston, he lived with his family in Ann Arbor, Michigan for four years while his wife got an MBA before returning to teach at BYU in 2003. He studies and teaches the humanities of the Americas and Africa and is a devoted fan of the Buffalo Bills, the Boston Red Sox, the music of Bruce Springsteen and Glenn Gould, contemporary art, and his four kids.

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