Author Archives: Bookworm
‘Yours Always’
Yours Always is the latest novel from Boston College Class of 2014 graduate Corinne Sullivan. Described as a mind-bending tale of dangerous love featuring unreliable narrators, Yours Always is the story of Talia Danvers, an engineer for a high-end dating … Continue reading
Changemaker
Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development Associate Professor Emily F. Gates’ work focuses on the role of evaluation in designing, implementing, and adapting interventions to address complex problems and foster systems change. In a new book, she and … Continue reading
Jewish women’s literature
Blending history, collective biography, and literary criticism, the new book West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco, and American Literary Culture (Wayne State University Press, 2026) re-positions the American West as a generative space for turn-of-the-20th-century Jewish women’s … Continue reading
Robert Faulkner collection
Robert K. Faulkner (1934-2023), who taught political philosophy at Boston College for more than four decades, is commemorated in a new collection of essays. Comprising 17 studies from every period of Faulkner’s distinguished career, Politics, Progress, and the Constitution: Essays … Continue reading
A History of Fionn and the Fianna
The Burns Library at Boston College will host a book launch on April 16 at 5 p.m. for Heroes of the Gael: A History of Fionn and the Fianna (Princeton University Press, 2026) by Natasha Sumner. Fionn macCumhaill (also known as Finn … Continue reading
Peter E. Gordon
Harvard University’s Amabel B. James Professor of History Peter E. Gordon will speak on his new book, Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver (Yale University Press, 2026), at Boston College on April 14 at 5 p.m. in Devlin 101. Gordon, who … Continue reading
Burns Scholar Ray Cashman
Provost Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington Ray Cashman, who is serving this semester as BC’s Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, will deliver a lecture on April 8 at 6 p.m. on “Exploring Belief in Spirits … Continue reading
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Margaret Burnham
Renowned legal scholar, civil rights advocate, and former judge Margaret A. Burnham will deliver a talk on her acclaimed book By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners on April 8 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. By Hands Now … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, civil rights, law, racism
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Joyce Vance: Giving Up Is Unforgivable
Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law Joyce Vance, author of the bestseller Giving Up is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping A Democracy, will speak at Boston College on March 26. Vance’s … Continue reading
From Baltimore to Beirut
Sherene Seikaly, an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present a talk on her current book project “From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine” at Boston College on March 25. Her book … Continue reading
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