Monthly Archives: September 2013
Books on BC football
Boston College alumnus Reid Oslin, former sports information officer in Athletics, will sign copies of his newly updated edition of Tales from the Boston College Sideline: A Collection of the Greatest Eagle Stories Ever Told as well as his previously published Boston College Football Vault: … Continue reading
Fleming is MacArthur Fellow
Congratulations to medieval historian Robin Fleming, author of Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400-1070, who has been named a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. Fleming is a professor of history at Boston College and scholar of early medieval Britain. The … Continue reading
Posted in Awards/Honors, Boston College Authors
Tagged European history, History Department
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Book Signing: Dracula’s Bloodline
More than 40 years after his pivotal book In Search of Dracula (with Raymond McNally) revealed the historical identity of Dracula, historian Radu Florescu has traced his own family’s ties to the notorious 15th century ruler. Dracula’s Bloodline: A Florescu … Continue reading
Fiction and the biggest question
Author and book critic James Wood will present “Why? Fiction and the Biggest Question” on Sept. 25 in Gasson Hall, room 100 at 7 p.m. Wood is a staff writer and book critic at The New Yorker. His critical essays have … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Authors, Lowell Humanities Series
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Shrayer on Vasily Grossman
Soviet writer Vasily Grossman bore witness to the horrors of Russia’s World War II and the Shoah and deserves a place in literary history, according to Boston College Professor of Russian and English Maxim D. Shrayer, who recommends the best … Continue reading
Graver on National Book Award longlist
Congratulations to Boston College Professor of English Elizabeth Graver who has been named to the longlist for the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction for her novel, The End of the Point (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers). The End of the Point follows … Continue reading
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Tagged English Department, fiction, National Book Award
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The Virgin Mary in Chinese iconography
The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese History (Hong Kong University Press) is a new book forthcoming from Father Jeremy Clarke, SJ, a historian whose expertise is the history of Catholicism in China. Through a prism of history, theology … Continue reading
Honors for Jacobs
Congratulations to History Associate Professor Seth Jacobs, winner of the New England Historical Association’s James P. Hanlan Book Award for his work, The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos. The NEHA is a professional association of over … Continue reading
A story of emigration
Author Maxim D. Shrayer, a Boston College professor of Russian and English, is the subject of a feature story in the Cape Cod Chronicle, which focuses on his emigration from Russia to America–the subject of his memoir Waiting for America.
Posted in Boston College Authors
Tagged immigration, Russia, Slavic and Eastern Languages Dept
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Nurse leadership
A book co-authored by Connell School of Nursing Professor Dorothy A. Jones has been honored with the 2013 Sigma Theta Tau International “Best of Book Author Award.” Fostering Nurse-Led Care: Professional Practice for the Bedside Leader From Massachusetts General Hospital … Continue reading
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Tagged Connell School of Nursing, leadership, nurse
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BC Bookmarks 