Category Archives: Boston College Authors
U.S. Catholic schools
Nearly 1.7 million students are enrolled in Catholic schools in the United States. In The Playbook for Whole-Child Education in U.S. Catholic Schools (National Catholic Educational Association, 2025), the authors establish a … Continue reading
Quoth the Raven
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” a narrative poem about a grieving student mourning the death of his lost love—and his slow descent into madness after a mysterious talking bird visits him, was an immediate sensation and remains one of the … Continue reading
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‘Servants of the Mysteries’
BC Clough School of Theology and Ministry Professor John Baldovin, S.J., presents a comprehensive Eucharistic theology of the ministerial priesthood as envisioned by the Second Vatican Council in his new book, Servants of the Mysteries (Liturgical Press, 2026). Fr. Baldovin has … Continue reading
The War on Terror
Boston College Assistant Professor of Communication Renée Pastel considers media representations of the “War on Terror,” notably films, television shows, and online videos, in her new book War in Pieces: “War on Terror” Media and the Fracturing of American Identity (Rutgers … Continue reading
A dog’s life
In the first book-length study that combines the history of Britain with animal studies, Boston College Professor of History Robin Fleming explores the social, cultural, and ritual histories of Roman Britain’s people through an investigation of their entanglements with dogs. … Continue reading
‘Untamed Unicorns’
In her new book, Untamed Unicorns: Why Startup Finance Is Broken and How to Fix It (Harvard University Press, 2026), Boston College Law School Professor Renée Jones delineates the harms that have come from deregulating venture capital financing and presents … Continue reading
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A modern retelling of ‘Persuasion’
Worse Than Strangers (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, 2026), a new book by 2019 Boston College graduate Kyleigh Leddy, is a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Set on Nantucket, Worse Than Strangers is the story of Lily Gardner, unemployed and … Continue reading
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Art of school leadership
A new book aimed at improving K-12 school education by David Corvi, a leadership coach at Boston College’s Lynch Leadership Academy, advocates strengthening the everyday experience of every learner—instead of employing interventions or isolated strategies—through a reimagined instructional framework for … Continue reading
Archiving working-class community publications
Worker Writers: Community Archiving in Action (National Council of Teachers of English, 2025), by Boston College Assistant Professor of English Jessica Pauszek, brings together conversations in community literacy, archival methods, and working-class studies to explore the process of collaboratively creating … Continue reading
Ecological community writing
Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact (Utah State University Press, 2025) explores ways to collaboratively build resilient local food systems and coalitions across disciplines and communities. Based on more than a decade of research, teaching, writing, and … Continue reading
