Robert 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.