Author Archives: Bookworm
Accolades for ‘Kantika’
Professor of English Elizabeth Graver’s critically acclaimed novel, Kantika, is winner of a National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture. Kantika was inspired by Graver’s grandmother, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul and … Continue reading
Posted in Awards/Honors, Boston College Authors
Tagged English Department, historical fiction, Jewish history, novel, novelist
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Native kinship, institutionalization, and remembering
On March 21, historian Susan Burch, a professor of American studies at Middlebury College, will give a lecture connected to her most recent book, Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). A co-founder … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Authors, Park Street Corporation Speaker Series
Tagged Native American, U.S history
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Everyday objects in colonial Ireland
Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830 (Oxford University Press, 2024), written by BC Assistant Professor of English and Irish Studies Colleen Taylor, is the first book to apply new materialist theory to the critical study … Continue reading
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was a brilliant battlefield commander who betrayed America in its darkest hour. Becoming Benedict Arnold: A Traitor’s Tale is a new book by Boston College graduate Stephen Yoch that tells how avarice, political intrigue, and love transformed a … Continue reading
Prepare to win
Preparation is as powerful as it is simple. Yet, the rather elementary concept is difficult for many people to execute properly. Nick Cidado is an assistant strength & conditioning coach at Boston College and has worked with thousands of athletes … Continue reading
Poet Paul Muldoon
Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon will give a poetry reading on March 13 at 5:30 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. An acclaimed poet, Muldoon was born in Portadown, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, and is the author of numerous … Continue reading
Understanding Cuba
Historian Ada Ferrer will speak on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Cuba: An American History, at Boston College on March 13 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. Spanning more than 500 years, Ferrer’s book chronicles Cuban history and its complex ties … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Authors, Lowell Humanities Series
Tagged Cuba, history, Pulitzer Prize winner, U.S. history
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Keeping it “real”
BC Associate Professor of Communication Michael Serazio’s new book, The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It ‘Real’ in Media, Culture, and Politics (Standford University Press, 2023), examines the ways in which presentations of “authenticity” have been used by celebrities, politicians, and marketers … Continue reading
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Tagged Communication Department, culture, media, politics
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Michael Tubbs
When Michael Tubbs was elected mayor of Stockton (CA) in 2016 he became that city’s first Black mayor and the youngest mayor of any major city in U.S. history. He was 26 years old. Tubbs will present the Winston Center … Continue reading
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Journalism and the migration crisis
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matthieu Aikins will join Boston College Professor of English Min Hyoung Song on February 27 for a discussion on the experiences of refugees trying to cross heavily fortified borders, the wars in the Middle East, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian American Studies, journalism, migration, Pulitzer Prize winner
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