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Skidmore College
Office Location: Palamountain Hall, #313
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

Office Hours:
Academic Year: Monday--Friday, 8:30 AM-12:00 PM; 1:00-4:30 PM

Office Hours: Summer Hours: Monday--Thursday, 7:30 AM-5:15 PM, closed Friday

DEPARTMENT CHAIR:
Mason Stokes, Associate Professor of English

ASSOCIATE CHAIR:
Barbara Black, Associate Professor of English

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT:
Mary Wright

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BoshoffPhilip Boshoff
Associate Professor

B.A., SUNY College at Oneonta
M.A. and Ph.D., Purdue University

Office: Palamountain 309
Phone:(518) 580-5155
Email: pboshoff@skidmore.edu


Teaching and Research Interests:
  • Expository writing theory and pedagogy
  • Discourse and literary theory
  • Collaborative learning
  • Modern English novelists (esp. Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Graham Greene)
  • Fiction writing

Courses Taught:
  • EN 103:   Writing Seminar I
  • EN 105:   Writing Seminar II
  • EN 105H: Writing Seminar II
  • EN 110:   Introduction to Literary Studies
  • EN 211:   Fiction
  • EN 229:   Love in the Novel
  • EN 303H: Peer Tutoring Project
  • EN 312:   Modern English Novel

Professional Activity:
  • Publications (articles)
  • Sports in literature
  • Writing Center tutoring and administration
  • Metagcognition and ESL instruction
  • On-line distance learning in college composition
  • High school-college collaborative learning projects
  • Teaching gifted and talented adolescents