Category Archives: Boston College Authors
How Königsberg Became Kaliningrad
German Blood, Slavic Soil (Cornell University Press, 2023), a new book by Boston College Associate Professor of History Nicole Eaton, reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, 20th-century Europe’s two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and … Continue reading
BC grad named a local poet laureate
Boston College graduate Lynne Viti has been named poet laureate for Westwood, Massachusetts. In her role as the town’s poet laureate, Viti will encourage the reading and writing of poetry, mentor a teen poet, and write several poems for local … Continue reading
Shrayer’s Immigrant Baggage
Boston College Professor Maxim D. Shrayer will read from and discuss his new literary memoir Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile (Cherry Orchard Books, 2023) at a Boston College event on April 24. Through a combination … Continue reading
From nothing
A new book by Boston College Associate Professor of Theology Brian D. Robinette explores the doctrinal, social, and spiritual significance of a central yet insufficiently understood tenet in Christian theology: creation “from nothing.” In The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, … Continue reading
The science behind memory
Explaining the science behind memory and memory loss—including why forgetting is a crucial property of memory, as well as strategies that help people remember better—is the subject of a new book co-authored by neuroscientist Elizabeth A. Kensinger, a professor in … Continue reading
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Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation
Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference (Lexington Books, 2022), a major new work of literary criticism from Professor Emeritus of English Dennis Taylor, examines Shakespeare’s dramatization of key issues of the Elizabethan Reformation, including the conflict … Continue reading
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Tagged English Department, literary criticism, religion, Shakespeare
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Richard Kearney: a novel and scholarship
Irish philosopher Richard Kearney, who holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College, has published a novel titled Salvage (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) that centers on the timeless tension between progress and tradition. A description of the novel … Continue reading
Inequality in the U.S.
With his new book, The Six Facts that Matter: Understanding Inequality in the United States (2022), author Geoffrey Sanzenbacher says readers will be thinking like economists by the last page. Sanzenbacher, an associate professor of the practice in BC’s Economics … Continue reading
The sweet life of Fr. Walter Smith
It’s not surprising that a memoir by a priest and psychologist who has spent six decades in the Society of Jesus would include numerous tales of significant people and events. The memoir of Boston College graduate Walter J. Smith, S.J., … Continue reading
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Tagged cookbook, food, Jesuit author, memoir, School of Theology and Ministry
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Pindar’s songs and his world
In her new book, Pindar and Greek Religion: Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Boston College’s Behrakis Assistant Professor in Hellenic Studies Hanne Eisenfeld combines close reading and philological analysis with religious historical approaches to … Continue reading
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Tagged Classical Studies Department, Greek literature
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