Category Archives: Boston College Authors
New battlefields
According to author David Patrikarakos, the scholarly work of Associate Professor of Communication and International Studies Matt Sienkiewicz greatly enhanced the intellectual rigor of his new book, War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. Covering … Continue reading
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Male survivors of sexual abuse
BC School of Social Work Associate Professor Scott Easton has contributed a chapter to the new book Understanding the Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men: The Trauma of Sexual Abuse, edited by Richard B. Gartner. The book presents chapters from the leading experts … Continue reading
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Best Book Award for Erickson
Dangerous Trade: Conventional Arms Exports, Human Rights, and International Reputation (Columbia University Press), written by Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies Jennifer L. Erickson, was awarded the 2017 Best Book Award by the Foreign Policy Section of American Political Science … Continue reading
The Holy Spirit
The School of Theology and Ministry will hold an event on Nov. 2 to celebrate the publication of The Holy Spirit: Setting the World on Fire (Paulist Press, 2017), co-edited by School of Theology and Ministry professors Rev. Richard Lennan and … Continue reading
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If you could hear a painting
The Leonardo Electronic Almanac has published a volume that surveys artist Mary Sherman‘s work, a combination of painting, sculpture, installation, and mechanics that explores the relationship between painting and sound. Sherman is a Boston College alumna and teaches in the … Continue reading
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Book launch for Fr. Stegman’s new book
The School of Theology and Ministry is hosting a book launch on Oct. 19 to celebrate the publication of STM Dean Thomas Stegman, S.J.‘s latest book, Written for Our Instruction: Theological and Spiritual Riches in Romans (Paulist Press, 2017). The event will … Continue reading
An elegy for Russia’s Jewry
A richly journalistic portrait of Russia’s dwindling, but still vibrant and influential Jewish community, is presented in a new book by Boston College Professor Maxim D. Shrayer. Based on new evidence and a series of interviews, With or Without You: … Continue reading
New journalism minor at BC
Associate Professor of English Angela Ards, who joined Boston College this fall, will help develop and direct a new interdisciplinary minor in journalism expected to debut in the fall of 2018. Ards is a former editor and writer at The Village Voice and The … Continue reading
A is for asteroids
An early fascination with horror films and decades of teaching courses on Gothic fiction inspired Boston College English Professor Paul Lewis to write A Is for Asteroids, Z Is for Zombies: A Bedtime Book about the Coming Apocalypse (Andrews McMeel … Continue reading
Jesuit mysticism
In A Companion to Jesuit Mysticism (Brill Publishers, 2017), editor Robert A. Maryks presents 13 essays on the Jesuit mystical tradition, a somewhat neglected aspect of Jesuit historiography that stretches as far back as Ignatius of Loyola, his spiritual visions at … Continue reading
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