Robert Boyers
Professor of english
Editor of Salmagundi and director, new york state summer writers institute
B.A., Queens College
M.A., New York University
Office: Palamountain 325
Phone: (518) 580-5156
Email:rboyers@skidmore.edu
Courses Taught:
- EN 211: Fiction
- EN 217: Film
- EN 229C: Politics and the Novel
- EN 311: Recent Fiction
- EN 313/314: Modernist and Contemporary Poetry
- EN 337: Continental Novel (19th c. European Fiction)
- EN 352: Victorian Literature
- EN 363: Politics and the Novel
- EN 363: Modernist Imagination
- SSP 100: Scribner Seminar
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Politics and Literature
- Education and The Condition of the Culture
- Contemporary and Modernist Poetry
- Film
- History of Ideas
- Victorian Literature and Culture
- Founder (1965) and editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal Salmagundi
- Founder (1987) and director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute
Selected Publications:
- The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, The Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies (Scribners, 2019) The Fate of Ideas : Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals (Columbia Univ. Press, 2015)
- Excitable Women, Damaged Men (short stories, 2005)
- The Dictator's Dictation: The Politics of Novels and Novelists (Columbia Univ. Press, 2005)
- Atrocity and Amnesia (Oxford UP, 1985)
- A Book of Common Praise (Ausable, 2002)
- Frequent essays for Harper's, The New Republic, The Nation, The American Scholar, The Chronicle of Higher Education and other magazines, as well as Best American Essays (2012)
- Short stories have appeared in Yale Review, Harvard Review, etc.
