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BOYERSRobert Boyers
Professor
Editor of Salmagundi

B.A., Queens College
M.A.,  New York University

Office: Palamountain 325
Phone:(518) 580-5156
Email: rboyers@skidmore.edu







Courses Taught:

  • EN 311: Recent Fiction
  • EN 337: Continental Novel (19th c. European Fiction)
  • EN 313/314: Modernist and Contemporary Poetry
  • EN 352: Victorian Literature
  • EN 363: Politics and the Novel
  • EN 217: Film

Teaching and Research Interests:

  • Politics and Literature
  • 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:
  • 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 and other magazines.
  • Short stories have appeared in Yale Review, Harvard Review, etc.