Category Archives: Boston College Authors
The Anatomy of a Murder
On July 31, 1952, a murder occurred in a bar in a small resort town in northern Michigan. The trial that followed, in which young army lieutenant Coleman Peterson was tried for murdering the bar owner, inspired a bestselling novel … Continue reading
‘The Moral Vision of Pope Francis’
For more than a decade, Pope Francis has led the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing collegiality in ecclesial governance and focusing global priorities on the poor, the marginalized, and the environment. Pope Francis’s vision for the Church and the reluctance by … Continue reading
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Tagged ethics, moral theology, Pope Francis, Theology Department
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Lessing’s literary and polemical strategies
Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy Hannes Kerber is a co-editor of new collection of essays (in German) titled Praktiken der Provokation. Lessings Schreib- und Streitstrategien (Practices of Provocation: Lessing’s Literary and Polemical Strategies). This volume brings together contributions from a … Continue reading
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Tagged Germany, political philosophy, Political Science department
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Touched by This Place
In his new book, Touched By This Place (Orbis Books, 2024), Benjamín Valentín encourages readers to recognize how place—the geographical place in which we live and move and have our being—affects and molds human thought, experience, memory, identity, and activity. In … Continue reading
Tales of a newspaper woman
Elizabeth Garver Jordan was a groundbreaking journalist, suffragist, and editor who gained notoriety for her coverage of the murder trial of Lizzie Borden. She also published detective novels and short story collections such as Tales of the City Room. She … Continue reading
European studies
Gabriel Feldstein, a digital publishing and outreach specialist at O’Neill Library, has contributed a chapter to The Handbook for European Studies Librarians (University of Minnesota Libraries, 2024), edited by Brian Vetruba and Heidi Madden. It is a new open-access book … Continue reading
A philosophy of formative higher ed
What if college were not just a means of acquiring credentials and a path to a career, but a place that offered so much more? In his new book Undeclared: A Philosophy of Higher Education (MIT Press, 2024), BC Lynch … Continue reading
Irish Studies scholarship
Two Boston College Irish Studies Program faculty members contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2024). Sullivan Chair in Irish Studies Guy Beiner’s essay is on “Religion and Memory in Modern Ireland.” Professor … Continue reading
The Constitutional Bind
The United States Constitution occupies a quasi-mythical status in American political culture, according to Boston College Law Professor Aziz Rana, whose new book argues that this reverence is a 20th-century phenomenon and has led Americans to idolize a flawed document. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston College Law School, constitution, law
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The Irish Revival, reconsidered
Boston College Associate Professor of English and Irish Studies Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente (University of Buffalo) have co-edited Irish Revival: A Complex Vision (Syracuse University Press, 2023), a collection of essays offering a nuanced reinterpretation of the Irish Revival … Continue reading
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