Author Archives: Bookworm
Elements goes digital
Last week marked a milestone for Elements, the Boston College undergraduate research journal: its 10th anniversary and the launch of its digital platform. The publication has collaborated with Boston College Libraries to become an open access journal operating under a Creative Commons … Continue reading
The liberal arts & China
Woods College of Advancing Studies Assistant Dean You Guo Jiang, SJ, is the author of Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society: A New Perspective on Chinese Higher Education (Brill Academic Publishers, 2014). This work provides a unique focus on the re-emergence … Continue reading
Lincoln & the 13th Ammendment
This weekend marks the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. In his new book, Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015), Boston College alumnus Christian G. Samito examines how Lincoln’s opposition to amending the … Continue reading
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Book reviews
Several members of the Boston College community have written book reviews recently. Mike Cronin, academic director of BC-Ireland, reviewed Paul Rouse’s Sport and Ireland: A History for the Irish Times. Father Kenneth R. Himes, OFM, associate professor of theology, reviewed … Continue reading
Honors for Bowles
Publishers Weekly has selected Daniel Bowles’ English translation of Christian Kracht’s Imperium as one of the top ten books of 2015. The translation also made it to Huffington Post’s list of the “18 Best Fiction Books of 2015.” Bowles is an assistant … Continue reading
Mass. Book Award
Alumnus Paul Reynolds, a part-time faculty member in the Communication Department, has been recognized by the Massachusetts Center for the Book with a 2015 Massachusetts Book Award for his picture book, Going Places (Simon & Schuster, 2014). The Massachusetts Book Awards recognize … Continue reading
Nathaniel Hawthorne & Frederick Douglass
Two seminal 19th-century works – both significant in the evolution of American thought and writing, but rarely considered in relation to one another – are the focus of a Burns Library exhibition, “Nathaniel Hawthorne and Frederick Douglass: Texts and Contexts.” … Continue reading
Grief and gratitude at Thanksgiving
“It is ok to grieve on Thanksgiving, because when we grieve we feel how much the love is between ourselves and those whom we lost,” writes Canisius Professor James Keenan, SJ, in an essay for Commonweal magazine’s blog. “When we … Continue reading
School of Social Work magazine
The fall 2015 issue of the Boston College School of Social Work magazine features the work of junior faculty members Rocio Calvo, Jessica Black, Summer Hawkins and Erika Sabbath as well as the contributions of James Lubben to the Grand Challenges … Continue reading
Working for a better world
President & CEO of Catholic Relief Services Carolyn Y. Woo will present “Working for a Better World: The Story of Catholic Relief Services and Carolyn Woo,” on Nov. 30 at 6 p.m. in Gasson 100. Woo joined Catholic Relief Services, … Continue reading
