Dr Zoe Hope Bulaitis is an educator and researcher who is motivated by better articulating the value of the humanities in the twenty-first century.

Dr. Zoe Bulaitis is an interdisciplinary scholar, highly regarded for her expertise in literary studies, cultural value and higher education policy. Her research delves into the articulation of value in contemporary higher education and the creative sector, with a keen focus on the economisation of cultural value, humanities-oriented methodologies, and the public value of arts and humanities research.

Zoe is interested in the connections between teaching and research. She earned her PhD at the University of Exeter, where she taught English Literature and Critical Theory from 2013 to 2018.

Zoe has been teaching at the University of Birmingham since 2018, and is currently Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences. She regularly creates publicly-engaged humanities teaching and learning opportunities for students.

In 2014 and in 2016, Zoe had the privilege of being a staff member on the Semester at Sea program. Her love of travel and of wide oceans continues to this day.

She is also fascinated in understanding contemporary creative ecologies and the civic role of universities within city-regions. As a researcher in the AHRC-funded Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC), based at the University of Manchester, Zoe worked with the British Council, NESTA, and local policymakers to shape new ways of thinking about the role of the humanities in city-planning, local industrial strategies, and inclusive growth.

Approach

Zoe loves to connect knowledge across borders, be that disciplinary, sectoral, national, or otherwise.

Her ethos seeks to be collaborative and constructive.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view

Middlemarch, George Eliot