Author Archives: Bookworm
Inaugural Adele Dalsimer lecture
Literary critic and Boston College alumna Margaret Kelleher, a professor at University College Dublin, will present “Focla Dégheanach (Dying Words): The Execution of Myles Joyce (Galway, 1882) and Its Continuing Legacy” at BC’s inaugural Adele Dalsimer Lecture on Oct. 1 at … Continue reading
Edwidge Danticat
In collaboration with Fiction Days, the Lowell Humanities Series presents award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. in the Murray Room of Yawkey Center. Her appearance is part of a three-day residency at BC. Danticat, a native of … Continue reading
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Dubliners Bookshelf
Department of English doctoral student Andrew Kuhn has edited Dubliners Bookshelf, a digital exploration into the books of James Joyce’s Dubliners. The website collects and organizes texts cited in Joyce’s short story collection, including Walter Scott’s The Abbot, Lord Byron’s Poems, and the Maynooth … Continue reading
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A new way to lead
Sveta Emery, associate dean of finance, research, and administration in the BC School of Social Work, offers her take on The End of Leadership by Barbara Kellerman for a Chronicle of Higher Education feature, “What I’m Reading.” According to Kellerman, as a result … Continue reading
Translating Imperium
Assistant Professor of German Studies Daniel Bowles has written the English translation of Swiss author Christian Kracht’s best-selling novel Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The novel is described as a provocative satire and a serious … Continue reading
Shedding light on a seminal work
James Madison’s Notes on the 1787 Constitutional Convention have acquired nearly unquestioned authority as the account of the U.S. Constitution’s creation, relied upon by generations of historians and other scholars. In her new book, Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention (Harvard University Press, 2015), … Continue reading
BC Libraries features faculty authors
Boston College Libraries has recently featured three professors who published books last year in the fields of art, management and Irish politics. In Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art (Edinburgh University Press), Calderwood Professor of Islamic and Asian Art Sheila Blair presents … Continue reading
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope International Journal is an international relations and global studies publication run by Boston College undergraduates, with funding from the Institute for the Liberal Arts. Its goal is to promote greater awareness and understanding of international issues through research, articles … Continue reading
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Being Catholic during the Dirty War
During Argentina’s Dirty War — an attempt by the government to fight communism by eliminating subversives —15,000 people were killed, 8,000 were jailed and some 6,000 were exiled. The Catholic Church and Argentina’s Dirty War (Oxford University Press, 2015), a new … Continue reading
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Life on 6th Street
Sociologist Alice Goffman, author of On The Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (The University of Chicago Press, 2014), will speak on Sept. 8 at 7:00 p.m. in Devlin Hall, 101. Listed among the best nonfiction books of 2014 by Publisher’s … Continue reading
