Category Archives: Students
Intercollegiate Poetry Festival
Betsy Sholl, Maine’s poet laureate from 2006 to 2011, will be the keynote speaker at the annual Greater Boston Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Festival taking place at Boston College on Apr. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Yawkey Center. Sholl is the author of … Continue reading
Poet Franz Wright
A reading and Q&A with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright will be held on Mar. 20 at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. His most recent collection of poetry is F: Poems. His other works include Kindertotenwald, Wheeling Motel, The Beforelife, God’s … Continue reading
Digital Dubliners
Joseph Nugent of BC’s English Department will talk about his digital humanities project, Digital Dubliners, at an A&S Dean’s Colloquium on Feb. 24 starting at 4:30 p.m. in the O’Neill Library Reading Room. Designed and created by students in Nugent’s … Continue reading
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Tagged English Department, Ireland, James Joyce, joycean
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History through the lens of comic books
BC students in Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson’s Making History Public class have created “Revealing America’s History Through Comics”– an exhibition based on the historical study of comic books from the 1940s to present day. Using popular Marvel and DC … Continue reading
The best offerings from STM students
A new issue of the graduate academic journal of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Lumen et Vita, has been published. The e-journal presents research and reviews from the STM student body.
Art of the book
Books hand-decorated and sewn by Bookbuilders of Boston scholarship recipients Juliette San Fillipo ’13 and Jennifer O’Brien ’13 and Burns Library conservation lab assistants Anna Whitham ’15 and Josh Rosenfeld ’13, under the direction of Burns Conservator Barbara Hebard, are … Continue reading
Poetry fest
Students representing 26 colleges and universities, including Boston College junior Helen Spica, will share their original poetry at the annual Greater Boston Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Festival on April 11 in the Yawkey Center’s Murray Function Room. Irish poet Peter Fallon will … Continue reading
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Discovering Joyce’s Dublin
The Dublin of 1904, explored by Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses, is now accessible to the tech-savvy inhabitants of the 21st century thanks to JoyceWays, a multimedia virtual tour created by Boston College undergraduates with the help of BC … Continue reading
Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann, author of National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin, will address the Class of 2015 and other members of the BC Community tomorrow as part of the Office of First Year Experience’s Conversations in the First … Continue reading
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