Category Archives: Boston College Authors
Gustave Courbet
Visitors to the exclusive exhibition, “Courbet: Mapping Realism” which opens this weekend at BC’s McMullen Museum of Art, can gain additional insights into its subject–realist movement leader Gustave Courbet, one of France’s most prolific and innovative painters–via an accompanying volume … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artist, Fine Arts Department, France, McMullen Museum of Art
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A look at a medieval “bestseller”
The Book of Hours was the most commonly produced and owned book in medieval and early modern Europe. In her book French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600 (Cambridge University Press), Boston College Associate Professor of … Continue reading
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Tagged European history, History Department, prayer
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Irony fuels critical debate
What is it about irony–as both an object of philosophical reflection and a literary technique—that fuels critical debate? Boston College Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Kevin Newmark examines this question in Irony on Occasion: From Schlegel and Kierkegaard to … Continue reading
Catholic Shanghai
Father Jeremy Clarke, SJ, a historian whose expertise is the history of Catholicism in China, has authored Catholic Shanghai: A Historical, Practical and Reflective Guide. It is a pilgrim’s guide to the history and significance of Catholic sites in Shanghai. … Continue reading
Finding meaning in diaspora
Oxford University Press’ Very Short Introductions offer concise, balanced and readable introductions to a wide range of subjects. History Professor Kevin Kenny, whose expertise is the history of migration and popular protest in the Atlantic world, has written a volume … Continue reading
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Tagged diaspora, History Department, immigration, migration
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The Boston Strangler case, 50 years later
The Boston Strangler case is back in the headlines with the news that DNA from the 1964 murder case of Mary Sullivan has been definitively linked to Albert DeSalvo, who had confessed to the crimes but was never convicted. Boston … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, History Department, murder case, serial killer
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Creative undoing of form
Longtime Arts & Sciences Honors Program Assistant Director Mary Joe Hughes, a beloved teacher who recently retired from Boston College, has published The Move Beyond Form: Creative Undoing in Literature and the Arts since 1960 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). The book … Continue reading
The globalization of English
Author and historian David Northrup, who taught in the History Department at Boston College for some 40 years, has published a new book that looks at the rise and global spread of the English language. Publisher Palgrave Macmillan calls How … Continue reading
Looking at a generation of Asian-American writers
In his new book, The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American (Duke University Press Books, 2013), Boston College Associate Professor of English Min Hyoung Song focuses on the works by emerging Asian American authors … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian American writers, English Department, immigration
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The instrinsic value of the arts
Professor of Psychology Ellen Winner has co-authored a new book that looks at the impact of arts education and its connection to fostering skills for innovation. In Art for Art’s Sake? The Impact of Arts Education, Winner and co-authors Thalia … Continue reading
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