Category Archives: Boston College Authors
Shakespeare
The Australian, Australia’s largest-selling national paper, has named Shakespeare, Not Stirred as one of the best books of 2015. The book is co-authored by BC Associate Professor of English Caroline Bicks and Michelle Ephraim. The book has generated buzz as the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death … Continue reading
Franck Salameh
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies Franck Salameh gave a book talk at the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School on his latest work, Charles Corm: An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese “Young Phoenician” (Lexington Books, 2015). Present at the book … Continue reading
Jesuit authors
Books written by two Jesuit authors have recently been reviewed in leading Catholic magazines. University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics by Canisius Professor James F. Keenan, SJ was reviewed in US Catholic magazine. Fr. Keenan … Continue reading
The liberal arts & China
Woods College of Advancing Studies Assistant Dean You Guo Jiang, SJ, is the author of Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society: A New Perspective on Chinese Higher Education (Brill Academic Publishers, 2014). This work provides a unique focus on the re-emergence … Continue reading
Mass. Book Award
Alumnus Paul Reynolds, a part-time faculty member in the Communication Department, has been recognized by the Massachusetts Center for the Book with a 2015 Massachusetts Book Award for his picture book, Going Places (Simon & Schuster, 2014). The Massachusetts Book Awards recognize … Continue reading
Grief and gratitude at Thanksgiving
“It is ok to grieve on Thanksgiving, because when we grieve we feel how much the love is between ourselves and those whom we lost,” writes Canisius Professor James Keenan, SJ, in an essay for Commonweal magazine’s blog. “When we … Continue reading
An unfinished council
In spite of its impact, Vatican II was, in many ways, an unfinished council, according to Joseph Chair of Catholic Systematic Theology Richard R. Gaillardetz. He says the council bishops were able to establish key pillars in the construction of a new … Continue reading
Death by drone
Drones have become an essential part of US national security strategy, but most Americans know little about how they are used. In Drones and the Ethics of Targeted Killing (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015), Associate Professor of Theology Kenneth R. Himes, … Continue reading
Immigrant life
The Center for Human Rights and International Justice (CHRIJ) is hosting a book launch on Nov. 16 to mark the publication of two books exploring different facets of the life of the immigrant in the US and in the Boston … Continue reading
Prayer and imagination
Acclaimed poet Paul Mariani, university professor of English, will present “Prayer and Imagination: Poetry” on Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Stokes S195. Mariani is the author of 16 books, including The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane; Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life; Timing Devices: … Continue reading