Beth Boehm has been appointed executive vice president and provost at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. She has served as interim provost since May.
The University of Louisville is a state-operated educational institution with total enrollments of more than 21,000 students. Women make up 51 percent of the undergraduate student body.
Dr. Boehm was the inaugural permanent dean of the School of Graduate and Interdisciplinary Studies at the university. She also served as vice provost for academic affairs. Dr. Boehm has been a faculty member of the English department at Louisville since 1987. She is the co-editor of Narrative Acts: Rhetoric, Race and Identity, Knowledge (Hampton Press, 2011).
Dr. Boehm earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English from Ohio State University.