Category Archives: Boston College Authors
Graver on writing & teaching
Boston College Professor of English Elizabeth Graver, the author of several books, including The End of the Point and Unravelling, was among a group of English professors/authors recently polled on what they love about teaching and writing. Graver said her favorite moments … Continue reading
BPL talk by Peter Gray
Boston College research psychologist Peter Gray, author of Free to Learn, will give a talk on “The Biology of Education: How Children Learn Through Self-Directed Play and Exploration” on Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. at the Boston Public Library, Johnson Conference … Continue reading
Jews & Jesuits
The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College will host a celebration of the publication of “The Tragic Couple”: Encounters Between Jews and Jesuits (Brill Academic Publishing), co-edited by James Bernauer, S.J., Kraft Family Professor and Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish … Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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