Category Archives: Boston College Authors
Mapping the invisible nature of theater
Meditations on those entities that a theater audience doesn’t see—and their significance—are offered by Boston College Associate Professor of English Andrew Sofer in Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance (University of Michigan Press). In mapping the invisible dimension … Continue reading
Cultural exports
In her new book, Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America’s Image Abroad (Yale University Press), Martha Bayles shows how America’s in-your-face entertainment became our country’s de facto ambassador. Based on interviews she conducted in 11 countries, Bayles argues that … Continue reading
Honors for Shrayer
Congratulations to Maxim D. Shrayer whose book, Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story (Syracuse University Press), was named a finalist for a 2013 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Modern Jewish Thought and Experience. Now in its 63rd year, the … Continue reading
Review of Global Justice
America magazine has published a review of the newest book by J. Donald Monan, SJ Professor of Theology Lisa Sowle Cahill. The book, Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press), “demonstrates why just action is necessarily a criterion … Continue reading
Talking about Hope
Rev. Richard Lennan and Nancy Pineda-Madrid, editors of Hope: Promise, Possibility, and Fulfillment, were interviewed for a Boston College Chronicle article about their new book. Hope features essays on the theology of hope from 16 faculty members from the School … Continue reading
Death penalty in Massachusetts
BC Law Professor Mark Brodin, author of William P. Homans Jr.: A Life in Court, recently participated in “The Death Penalty in Massachusetts: Past, Present and Future in Fact and Fiction,” an event sponsored by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society. … Continue reading
Kenyon in Dark Duets
“Steward of the Blood,” a story co-authored by Nate Kenyon of BC Law School, has been published in the new anthology Dark Duets: All-New Tales of Horror and Dark Fantasy. In other news, Kenyon’s novel Day One was named a … Continue reading
Who were the Molly Maguires?
In the Oxford University Press blog, Professor of History Kevin Kenny, who specializes in the history of migration and popular protest in the Atlantic world, lists ten factoids that can help readers better understand the Molly Maguires and their place … Continue reading
more on Leaving Russia
Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story, the new memoir from Professor of Russian and English Maxim D. Shrayer, “poignantly captures [the] double life of [a] refusenik,” according to a review in the Jewish Journal. An excerpt was published by The Forward, … Continue reading
Spirituality for the family
Alumni Tim Muldoon, who works in Boston College’s Division of Mission and Ministry, and his wife, Sue, have published Six Sacred Rules for Families: A Spirituality for the Home (Ave Maria Press, 2013), which offers tips to parents to help … Continue reading