Category Archives: Boston College Authors
Cape Cod mystery
Hide and Seek: A Murder Mystery, a Kindle book by Boston College English Department faculty member Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield, has been dubbed “a psychologically suspenseful, edge-of-your-seat page-turner that weaves together strands of the major genres of crime fiction, from British detective … Continue reading
More authors at the Arts Festival
Authors Janet Costa Bates and Erin Dionne will be featured Saturday during the Arts Festival. Dionne, a graduate from the Class of 1997, will read from her book, Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet. Bates, who works at BC’s … Continue reading
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Arts Festival literary events
In addition to music, song and dance, the Boston College Arts Festival is a celebration of the literary arts. In the spotlight this year are senior English majors in the Creative Writing Concentration and faculty writers who will read their … Continue reading
Women and post-war Bosnia
Boston College Professor of Slavic and Eastern Languages Cynthia Simmons published “Women Engaged/Engaged Art in Postwar Bosnia: Reconciliation, Recovery, and Civil Society” in The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, a scholarly paper series published by the … Continue reading
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Review of The Case for Lebanon
Language Memory and Identity in the Middle East: The Case for Lebanon by Boston College Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Arabic, and Hebrew Franck Salameh was reviewed by Professor Mordechai Nisan of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the Spring … Continue reading
Privatize This?
In Privatize This? Assessing the Opportunities and Costs of Privatization, Boston College Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics Richard McGowan, SJ examines the ideology and motives behind the privatization or nationalization of an industry. Based on real-world case studies, ranging from … Continue reading
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Donnelly Prize
Boston College History Department faculty member Robert Savage, who also teaches in the University’s Irish Studies Program, was recently awarded the 2010 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Best Book in History and Social Sciences for his book A Loss … Continue reading
New ebook from O’Har
George O’Har, a faculty member in the English Department, has written a novel for Kindle called The Thousand Hour Club. According to O’Har, it’s “a story in which the main character, a gas-pumping drifter and college dropout, finds redemption after … Continue reading
Why Memoir?
BC Associate Professor of English Amy Boesky (pictured), English Dept. faculty member Suzanne Berne, and Joan Wickersham—three authors of recent memoirs—discuss the complications and possibilities of the form, and how their own thinking about memoir evolved during the writing of … Continue reading
Faith and wealth
Boston College Professor of Sociology Paul Schervish, an expert on affluence, charitable giving and spirituality, has co-written (with Keith Whitaker) a new book titled Wealth and the Will of God: Discerning the Use of Riches in the Service of Ultimate … Continue reading
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