Author Archives: Bookworm
BC Libraries celebrate March
The Boston College Libraries are honoring BC is Green month with BC Greener Lib group’s new list of library resources with an environmental focus. Check out the new list of green books for 2011 and new green e-books. There also … Continue reading
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All About Audrey
BC alumna Margaret Cardillo (Class of 2003) has written a children’s book titled Just Being Audrey about the late actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn. Cardillo, a lifelong Hepburn fan, said in an interview with the Naples Daily News that she … Continue reading
Emergent technologies & research
The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research, edited by BC Professor of Sociology Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, has been published by Oxford University Press. Hesse-Biber, director of Women’s & Gender Studies Program at BC, also contributed the essay “Emergent Technologies in … Continue reading
Author, Jesuit and media man
On Mar. 4, Boston College will host an evening with author Rev. James Martin, SJ, whose media appearances on NPR, “The O’Reilly Factor” and “The Colbert Report,” among many others, have made him one of the most recognizable Jesuits in … Continue reading
National Book Award finalist
Karen Tei Yamashita will read from her latest novel, I Hotel, a 2010 finalist for the National Book Award. She also is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, and Circle K Cycles. … Continue reading
Rethinking the history of women’s writing
From verse and songs to household recipes, The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610, vol. 2 examines the diversity of early women’s writing and offers a new paradigm for understanding women’s roles in shaping sixteenth century literary, religious and political … Continue reading
Holocaust history and survivor testimonies
Cultural critic and historian Christopher R. Browning, author of Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution of Poland, has served as an expert witness in two “Holocaust denial” cases: the second Zündel trial in Toronto in 1988 … Continue reading
The Googlization of everything
Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of the new book The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry), will speak on campus Feb. 24 at 4:30 p.m. in Cushing 001. Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar at the University of … Continue reading
James Joyce and cinema
The Boston Joyce Forum will present “Joyce, Cinema, and History,” a lecture by John McCourt of Università Roma Tre. Director of the Trieste Joyce School, McCourt is the editor of Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and the Cinema … Continue reading
