Category Archives: Boston College Authors
Emergent technologies & research
The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research, edited by BC Professor of Sociology Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, has been published by Oxford University Press. Hesse-Biber, director of Women’s & Gender Studies Program at BC, also contributed the essay “Emergent Technologies in … Continue reading
Rethinking the history of women’s writing
From verse and songs to household recipes, The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610, vol. 2 examines the diversity of early women’s writing and offers a new paradigm for understanding women’s roles in shaping sixteenth century literary, religious and political … Continue reading
BC student is published illustrator
Check out the Boston College Chronicle story on BC junior Rachel Gregorio who has illustrated two children’s books, Basketball with Big Baby and Pitching with the Papelbons. Gregorio has also applied her creative talents to many Boston College projects. She … Continue reading
Wave: A poet’s debut volume
The winner of numerous poetry awards, Boston College English Department Associate Professor Andrew Sofer has written Wave, his first book of poems. Named a finalist for the Morse Prize, the Donald Justice Award and the New Criterion Prize, Wave is … Continue reading
Congrats to Blair & Bloom
Congratulations to Norma Jean Calderwood University Professors of Islamic and Asian Art Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, winners of the World Prize for the Book of the Year by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of the Islamic Republic … Continue reading
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Tagged Fine Arts Department, Islamic art
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Loving someone who’s dying
Reflections of a Loving Partner: Caregiving at the End of Life by Boston College Connell School of Nursing adjunct faculty member and certified hospice and palliative nurse C. Andrew Martin is both a guide for caregivers and a personal story … Continue reading
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Tagged AIDS, Connell School of Nursing, death, hospice
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Embedded intelligence
Smart Products, Smarter Services: Strategies for Embedded Control, a new book by Carroll School of Management Professor of Information Systems Mary Cronin, looks at business strategies behind the technology embedded in smart phones, intelligent autos, and medical and energy devices. … Continue reading
Literature meets neuroscience
Boston College Professor of English Alan Richardson’s The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts brings recent work in cognitive neuroscience to bear on some famously vexed issues in British Romantic studies, and demonstrates in unprecedented ways how developments in … Continue reading
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Tagged British Romanticism, English Dept., neuroscience
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The beauty of BC’s stained glass
The enchanting beauty and stirring majesty of the stained glass windows of Bapst Library, Gasson Hall and St. Mary’s are vividly depicted in a keepsake book, Transforming Light: The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College (Linden Lane Press). The stunning photography … Continue reading
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