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Boston College Professor to Reinterpret ‘Identity’ in Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on November 15, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. Boston College hired a new professor in theater arts this year to teach a class that will “interpret the theme of identity” in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” One scholar criticized […]

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A Crucifix Controversy at BC

Over the winter break, Boston College placed in its classrooms crucifixes and other Christian symbols, many of them brought back from historically Catholic countries by BC students studying there. To the surprise of no one, this turned out to be controversial at the Jesuit-run institution. Any lurch in the direction of religion by religious colleges […]

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