Poet David Ferry
Award-winning poet David Ferry will give a reading on Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. Among Ferry’s books of poetry are Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (winner of the National Book Award for Poetry) and On This Side of the River: Selected Poems and Dwelling Places: Poems and Translations. His translations include The Georgics of Virgil, The Eclogues of Virgil, and The Odes of Horace. He has been honored with a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. Sponsors: Poetry Days and Lowell Humanities Series.
Modern Macroeconomics
Assistant Professor of Economics Sanjay Chugh has published an innovative textbook on the subject of macroeconomics. Modern Macroeconomics (MIT Press, 2015) presents macroeconomics through its microeconomic foundations, adopting the representative agent paradigm. By modeling the representative consumer and the representative firm, students will learn to describe macroeconomic outcomes and consider the effects of macroeconomic policies. The text is unique in its coverage of monopolistic competition, financial markets, and the interaction of fiscal and monetary policy, and is geared toward undergraduates in intermediate to advanced economics as well as graduate students.
Crime stories
Crime is everywhere in the new anthology Coast to Coast: Murder from Sea to Shining Sea (Down & Out Books, 2015), co-edited by Boston College alumnus Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks. McAleer also has contributed to the volume. A Sherlock Holmes Bowl winner, McAleer is the author of 101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists, A Miscellany of Murder, Double Endorsement and Fatal Deeds. He is past president of the Boston Authors Club and teaches in the Woods College of Advancing Studies. Read a 2013 Boston College Chronicle story about McAleer.
Posted in Alumni Authors, Boston College Authors
Tagged crime, fiction, Woods College of Advancing Studies
Leave a comment
Book award for Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Boston College Professor of Sociology Sharlene Hesse-Biber has been honored by Alpha Sigma Nu, the honor society for Jesuit colleges and universities, with a 2015 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award for her book, Waiting for Cancer to Come: Women’s Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer (University of Michigan Press). Waiting for Cancer to Come tells the stories of women who have tested positive for the BRCA 1/2 gene mutations, which indicate a higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. Hesse-Biber highlights the emotional, social, economic and psychological factors at play in women’s decisions about testing and cancer prevention. Read more from BC News
Posted in Awards/Honors, Boston College Authors
Tagged cancer, Jesuit, Sociology Dept
Leave a comment
#WeWereBC
A new exhibition on display this fall in Stokes Hall chronicles the first 100 years of Boston College’s history, a period during which a small, urban, day school for boys developed into a sprawling, suburban university serving a largely residential and coeducational student body. #WeWereBC is curated by the undergraduates in Seth Meehan‘s “Making History Public: Boston College” course. Using archival material from Burns Library, the exhibit highlights some of the key individuals, moments, developments, and conflicts that helped shape Boston College’s first century. This is the fifth Making History Public course, a collaborative project between the Boston College History Department and the Boston College University Libraries. John J. Burns Library blog | Boston College Chronicle
Over the summer, eight undergraduates joined Professor of English Our Faith, Our Stories
The fall issue of C21 Resources, produced by the Church in the 21st Century Center, focuses on the continuing power of stories to both nurture and share faith. Philosophy Professor Brian Braman, director of the Perspectives program, is the guest editor of this issue, which features essays and insights from Pope Francis, University President William P. Leahy, SJ, C21 Director Thomas Groome, author Alice McDermott and student Nichole Devaney, among many others.
Inaugural Adele Dalsimer lecture
Literary critic and Boston College alumna Margaret Kelleher, a professor at University College Dublin, will present “Focla Dégheanach (Dying Words): The Execution of Myles Joyce (Galway, 1882) and Its Continuing Legacy” at BC’s inaugural Adele Dalsimer Lecture on Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. Kelleher has reshaped the field of Irish literary studies over the last two decades with her work on 19th-century literature, women’s writings, and on the historical relationship between English and Irish. Her books include The Feminization of Famine and The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, co-edited with BC Professor Philip O’Leary. She was a contributing editor to Field Day Anthology Volumes 4 and 5, and editor of the special issue on the Irish Literary Revival for Irish University Review. Sponsor: Irish Studies. Advanced registration is requested. More about the lecture’s namesake and the event from the Boston College Chronicle.
Edwidge Danticat
In collaboration with Fiction Days, the Lowell Humanities Series presents award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. in the Murray Room of Yawkey Center. Her appearance is part of a three-day residency at BC. Danticat, a native of Haiti, is the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, and Brother, I’m Dying, among other titles. Her newest work, Untwine, is a young adult novel.
Posted in Guest Authors, Lowell Humanities Series
Leave a comment
BC Bookmarks 