The School of Theology and Ministry’s annual celebration of its faculty’s scholarship was virtual this year due to the pandemic. The video showcase recognizes 2019-20 scholarly publications by STM faculty, including book chapters and journal articles, translations, authored and edited books, and the three issues of Volume 63 of New Testament Abstracts. Faculty members recognized are: John Baldovin, S.J., André Brouillette, S.J., Francine Cardman, Andrew R. Davis, Brian Dunkle, S.J., Thomas Groome, Margaret Eletta Guider, OSF, Angela Kim Harkins, Franklin T. Harkins, David W. Jorgensen, Richard Lennan, Rafael Luciani, Christopher R. Matthews, Theresa O’Keefe, Hosffman Ospino, Michael Simone, S.J., Thomas D. Stegman, S.J., and O. Ernesto Valiente.
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300 years of Ireland’s literary history
Irish Literature in Transition is six-volume series from Cambridge University Press that tracks patterns of transmission and transformation between and across the centuries of Irish literature, from 1700 to the present. The general editors for the series are Boston College Associate Professor of English and Irish Studies Marjorie Howes and Claire Connolly of University College Cork. According to the publisher: “Each of the six volumes revises [the] understanding of established issues and texts and, simultaneously, introduces new questions, approaches, and authors. The series as a whole generates alternative genealogies across time and space, creating a new and dynamic version of literary history while highlighting the significance of change as a lived, felt force.” In addition to her role as series editor, Howes edited volume four, Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940, which covers the crucial period of the 1916 Easter Rising and the writings of Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, and Lady Gregory. Vera Kreilkamp, who teaches in BC’s Irish Studies program, contributed an essay to this volume.
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A memoir about moving forward
The life and career of Virginia Buckingham, the woman in charge of Boston’s Logan International Airport on 9/11, was torn apart after terrorists hijacked two planes and flew them into the World Trade Center. She was forced to resign and was sued for wrongful death by one of the victims’ family. In her new memoir On My Watch (Cavan Bridge Press, 2020), Buckingham “shares her struggle to rebuild her life and come to terms with being blamed for the unimaginable tragedy that occurred on her watch.” A Boston College alumna, Buckingham discussed her book and themes of resilience and moving forward versus moving on in a WSBT interview and in an opinion piece for the NY Post.
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The Clearing
The Clearing (Milkweed Editions, 2020), winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, is the debut collection of poetry from BC English Department Associate Professor of the Practice Allison Adair. According to the publisher, The Clearing is “luminous and electric from the first line to the last. The women in these poems live in places that have been excavated for gold and precious ores, and they understand the nature of being hollowed out. From the midst of the Civil War to our current era, Adair charts fairy tales that are painfully familiar, never forgetting that violence is often accompanied by tenderness.” The Boston Globe calls The Clearing “astonishing and luminous.”
Andy Hargreaves memoir
When you are an educator, even your memoir provides lessons. Moving: A Memoir of Education and Social Mobility (Solution Tree, 2020) follows internationally renowned educational policy expert and author Andy Hargreaves from his early days in 1950s Northern England to his university education in the early 1970s. Hargreaves connects the memoir’s theme of social mobility—the chance, through education, to achieve greater success than one’s parents—to today’s challenges of inequity and immobility. According to the publisher, “Hargreaves openly shares how class movement has affected him throughout life, links his narrative to classic and contemporary research and realities, and calls on society to reverse the increasing levels of social immobility and inequity worldwide.” Hargreaves is a professor emeritus at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development and a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa. He is president and co-founder of ARC (Atlantic Rim Collaboratory), a global initiative dedicated to advancing equity, excellence, inclusion, well-being, democracy, sustainability, and human rights in education.
Green bioethics
In her book Principles of Green Bioethics: Sustainability in Health Care (Michigan State University Press, 2019), author Cristina Richie lays out a framework for evaluating the sustainability of medical developments, techniques, and procedures. She calls for a joining of biomedical ethics with environmental ethics so the resulting bioethics are conservation-based and will reduce resource consumption in health care and lessen climate change-related health hazards. Richie is an alumna of Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry where she graduated with a master of theology. She went on to earn a doctorate in theological ethics from BC. Richie is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Public Health.
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The capture of a fugitive
A new book by Boston College alumnus Dave Wedge and co-author Casey Sherman tells the story of the capture and death of James “Whitey” Bulger, the notorious Boston mobster who was a fugitive for 16 years. Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture & Killing of America’s Most Wanted Crime Boss (William Morrow/ HarperCollins, 2020) is based on exclusive interviews, and according to the publisher, tells the “thrilling, definitive story of the pursuit, capture, and killing” of Bulger, a convicted criminal and one-time FBI informant. More from publisher: “Interweaving the perspectives of Bulger, his family and cohorts, and law enforcement, Hunting Whitey explains how this dangerous criminal evaded capture for nearly two decades and shines a spotlight on the dedicated detectives, federal agents, and prosecutors involved in bringing him to justice.” Wedge and Sherman previously collaborated on The Ice Bucket Challenge: Pete Frates and the Fight against ALS, 12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady’s Fight for Redemption, and Boston Strong: A City’s Triumph over Tragedy.
Back to the beach
Bestselling author Barbara Delinsky transports readers to the Rhode Island coastline in her latest novel, A Week at the Shore (St. Martin’s Press/MacMillan, 2020), where she explores the role memory plays in the lives of three sisters. The sisters reunite at their family’s beach house 20 years after a scandal upended their lives. A Boston College graduate, Delinsky is the author of more than 20 books published in 30 languages. Some of her previous novels include Before and Again, Sweet Salt Air, and Blueprints.
Book review from Kathleen Hirsch
Kathleen Hirsch, a part-time faculty member in Boston College’s Philosophy Department, penned a book review of Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife by Bart D. Ehrman for the Boston Globe. She writes that the author Ehrman “knows his territory as well as anyone writing today” and in his book he “ably enlightens and entertains.” Hirsch is the author of several books, including Songs from the Alley and A Sabbath Life: One Woman’s Search for Wholeness. Learn more at kathleenhirsch.com.
Quarantine
In Quarantine, John Smolens, a Boston College graduate, writes about a Massachusetts town grappling with an outbreak of a fatal disease. Though it sounds like current events, Smolens’ novel is set in 1796 and the deadly viral disease is yellow fever. In Quarantine, a ship arrives in Newburyport harbor with a crew infected with yellow fever. Quickly, the virus circulates throughout the town, killing many residents and testing the reserve of those left behind. Dr. Giles Wiggins, a war veteran, tries to save lives while the town’s future is threatened by obsession, greed, and fear. Out of print for several years, Quarantine was re-issued by Michigan State University Press in late 2019. Smolens’ next book, Day of Days, about a 1927 act of domestic terrorism that left 38 children dead, will be published this fall. Smolens was interviewed about Quarantine for a piece in the Lansing City Pulse.
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