Hallstein Edits Special Issue of Women’s Studies in Communication
D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, associate professor of rhetoric at BU College of General Studies, has edited a special issue of Women’s Studies in Communication, a journal that provides a feminist forum for diverse research, reviews, and commentary addressing the relationships between communication and gender. Due to her expertise in the rhetoric around motherhood and mothering–in particular, […]
R. Sam Deese Publishes Poetry Volume, Surf Music
R. Sam Deese, lecturer of social sciences, has published his first full-length volume of poetry, Surf Music (Pelekinesis, 2017). Robert Pinsky, one of American’s “foremost poet-critics,” calls it “the work of an athletic, adaptable mind and an enterprising, distinctive listener.” Acclaimed poet and translator David Ferry describes it as “a cascade of observation and pleasure […]
Q&A with Megan Sullivan: New Children’s Book on Parental Incarceration
Associate Dean Megan Sullivan has published a children’s book on parental incarceration: Clarissa’s Disappointment: And Resources for Families, Teachers and Counselors of Children of Incarcerated Parents. Drawing from the research she did for Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact (co-edited with Denise Johnston and published by Routledge in 2016), Sullivan has written a book that highlights a child’s […]
Aaron Worth Publishes Short Stories in Cemetery Dance and Aliterate
CGS Associate Professor of Rhetoric Aaron Worth has published a short story in the December issue of Cemetery Dance, the World Fantasy Award-winning magazine for horror, dark mystery, and suspense. The magazine has published prominent authors such as Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Charles Beaumont. Worth’s research focuses on Victorian literature and culture, and his story, […]
Michael Holm’s New Book Examines U.S. Global Agenda in Post-War Europe
This year, the United Kingdom shocked the world and many of its own citizens when it voted to exit the European Union. The vote struck a blow to the idea of European unity and collaboration—a few of the themes whose origins Michael Holm examines in his new book, The Marshall Plan: A New Deal for […]
Gregg Jaeger Co-Authors Book on Quantum Metrology, Imaging, and Communication
Gregg Jaeger’s new book, Quantum Metrology, Imaging, and Communication, carries on Jaeger’s interdisciplinary work in the field of quantum mechanics and quantum information. Published by Springer press in 2017, the book is co-authored with Jaeger (associate professor of natural science and mathematics at the College of General Studies), David Simon (BU alumnus and professor at […]
Hallstein Receives Outstanding Book Award for Bikini-Ready Moms
Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Boston University College of General Studies associate professor of rhetoric, received the 2016 Outstanding Book Award at the 39th annual conference of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language & Gender. The conference was held from October 13th – 16th in Chicago, Illinois. Hallstein received this award for her recent book, […]
Christopher Fahy Publishes Essay in New Book on Louisa May Alcott
CGS Senior Humanities Lecturer, Christopher Fahy, has contributed an essay in a recently published volume entitled Critical Insights: Louisa May Alcott. The work is written on 19th century American novelist, Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women. The essays in this volume provide a closer look into Alcott’s beliefs and her popular works such […]
Pederson Releases Book on Child Murder and Atonement in American Literature
In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a mother who has just escaped slavery kills her toddler daughter to prevent her from being recaptured. In Joyce Carol Oates’ My Sister, My Love, a six-year-old is brutally murdered. In Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark, an infant is left in the woods to die. In John Updike’s Rabbit, Run a child […]
Professor Cordner Discusses Education Outside the Classroom
In her new book, Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Exclusion as Innovation, Professor Cordner analyzes the tradition of independent learning in 19th-century England. In her analysis, Cordner discusses the impact of self-education on renowned literary minds such as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy and George Gissing, all of whom were barred from traditional […]