Philip 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