Author Archives: Bookworm
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.
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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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Gustave Courbet
Visitors to the exclusive exhibition, “Courbet: Mapping Realism” which opens this weekend at BC’s McMullen Museum of Art, can gain additional insights into its subject–realist movement leader Gustave Courbet, one of France’s most prolific and innovative painters–via an accompanying volume … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artist, Fine Arts Department, France, McMullen Museum of Art
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The Scholar and the Housewife
In her newly published memoir The Scholar and The Housewife, Boston College alumna Susan (Marren) Whelan recounts the people and events that informed her choices and strengthened her beliefs. Set against the backdrop of Wall Street in the 1980s and … Continue reading
Dante’s Divine Comedy
In 2000, the Italian section of Boston College Romance Languages and Literatures Department launched the ambitious “Lectura Dantis” series: public readings of Dante’s epic poem, Divine Comedy. Considered one of the world’s great works of literature, the 14th-century narrative poem … Continue reading
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Tagged Dante, Italian', poem, poetry, Romance Languages Dept
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Dream bigger
Members of the Class of 2017 have been asked to read Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary (Broadway Books). The book recounts the story and vision of Manchester Bidwell … Continue reading
One of the best: Ingrid Hillinger
A new book published this month by Harvard University Press takes a look at the strategies and personal traits of 26 of the best law school professors across the country, the culmination of a four-year study that identified extraordinary law … Continue reading
