Boyers, Robert
BOYERS, Robert
BOYERS, Robert. American, b. 1942. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Novellas/Short stories. Career: Tisch Professor of Arts & Letters, Professor of English, and Ed. of Salmagundi mag., Skidmore Coll., Saratoga Springs, New York, since 1969 (founded Salmagundi, Flushing, New York, 1965). Taught at the New School for Social Research, NYC, Fall 1967, Baruch School of the City University of New York, 1967-68, and Sullivan County Community Coll., 1968-69; Bennington Review, editor, 1977-83. Publications: (ed. with M. London) Robert Lowell: A Portrait of the Artist in His Time, 1970; (ed. with Robert Orrill) R. D. Laing and Anti-Psychiatry, 1971; (ed.) The Legacy of the German Refugee Intellectuals, 1972; (ed. with Robert Orrill) Psychological Man: Approaches to an Emergent Social Type, 1975; (ed.) Contemporary Poetry in America, 1975; Excursions: Selected Literary Essays of Robert Boyers, 1976; Lionel Trilling: Negative Capability and the Wisdom of Avoidance, 1977; F. R. Leavis: Judgment and The Discipline of Thought, 1978; R. P. Blackmur: Poet-Critic, 1980; (ed. with P. Boyers) The Salmagundi Reader, 1983, as The New Salmagundi Reader, 1996; Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel since 1945, 1985; After the Avant-Garde: Essays on Art and Culture, 1987. Address: English Dept, Skidmore CoIl, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, U.S.A.