Category Archives: Boston College Authors
The power of right-wing comedy
In their new book, That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them (University of California Press, 2022), authors Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx argue that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic mistake to assume that … Continue reading
Texts Less Traveled
Texts Less Traveled: Exploring Hebrews, the Catholic Epistles, and Revelation (Paulist Press, 2022) is the latest book by New Testament scholar Thomas D. Stegman, S.J., dean and professor of the BC School of Theology and Ministry. Fr. Stegman highlights some key, … Continue reading
Redressing a legacy of abuse in Ireland
A new collection of interdisciplinary essays seeks to answer the question of how will Ireland remedy its legacy of institutional abuse. REDRESS: Ireland’s Institutions and Transitional Justice (University of College Dublin Press, 2022) focuses on the structures which perpetuated widespread … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, English Department, Ireland, Irish Studies, justice, transitional justice, trauma
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Understanding creativity and innovation
While some organizational decision makers focus their attention on capital and physical resources, a new book reveals that effective people management should take center stage in the innovation process. The Handbook of Research on Creativity and Innovation (Edward Elgar Publishing, … Continue reading
Reading Anselm
New Readings of Anselm of Canterbury’s Intellectual Methods (Brill, 2022) presents essays that offer new readings of Anselm’s speculative and spiritual writings on topics including his relationship to Augustine, proofs for God’s existence, faith and reason, human freedom and the … Continue reading
Climate Lyricism
Boston College Professor of English Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice in his new book Climate Lyricism (Duke University Press, 2022). Song shows how contemporary poetry and fiction, especially by Black, Native American, Asian American, and Latinx … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, English Department, literature, poetry
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“Female Genius” in the Age of the Constitution
In her new book, Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution (University of Virginia Press, 2022), Boston College Law School Founders Professor of Law Mary Sarah Bilder recounts the life of a pioneering educator … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, biography, Boston College Law School, feminism, government
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International tax
Introduction to United States International Taxation is an ideal reference source for tax practitioners, tax professors, students, and others in the tax community. The authors—Kenealy Professor James Repetti, Interim Dean Diane Ring, and Paulus Endowment Senior Tax Fellow Stephen Shay—are … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston College Law School, international, tax
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A journey through bulimia, depression, and anxiety
Boston College alumna Yvonne Castañeda chronicles her journey through anxiety, depression, and an eating disorder in the new book, Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety (Santa Monica Press, 2022). In her memoir, Castañeda reflects on her upbringing as … Continue reading
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Tagged Latinx, memoir, mental health, School of Social Work
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Cybersecurity risk management
Woods College of Advancing Studies adjunct faculty member Brian Haugli is co-author, with Cynthia Brumfield, of the new book, Cybersecurity Risk Management: Mastering the Fundamentals Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (Wiley, 2021). Brumfield, a veteran technology analyst, and Haugli, a … Continue reading
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