Monthly Archives: April 2011

Soldier-poet

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Bookworm

Brian Turner is a soldier-poet whose debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, won the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Pen Center USA “Best in the West” award, the Poets Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection. He will … Continue reading →

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Donnelly Prize

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Bookworm

Boston College History Department faculty member Robert Savage, who also teaches in the University’s Irish Studies Program, was recently awarded the 2010 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Best Book in History and Social Sciences for his book A Loss … Continue reading →

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Irish author Angela Bourke

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Bookworm

Angela Bourke, author of The Burning of Bridget Cleary and Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker, will discuss her research with an undergraduate class that is opening up the presentation to the public.  The “Irish Material Culture”  class will … Continue reading →

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Bookworm

Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will read from her works on April 7 at 6:00 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 008, at an event sponsored by African and African Diaspora Studies Program. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers’ … Continue reading →

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The immigrant and the War on Terror

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Bookworm

How does the war on terror impact the lives of immigrants going about their daily lives? Author Amitava Kumar will discuss this and other questions in a lecture drawn from his book, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His … Continue reading →

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STM scholars pen book reviews

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Bookworm

Two professors from the School of Theology and Ministry have book reviews in April 4  issue of America magazine. New Testament scholar Daniel Harrington, S.J., reviews Pope Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem to the … Continue reading →

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Canaday on Straight State

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Bookworm

Historian Margot Canaday will speak on her recent book The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America, winner of the 2010 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for … Continue reading →

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