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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

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