Category:Ryan Boyd

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Ryan Boyd is a doctoral candidate in English and currently writing a dissertation titled "Backyard Wonder: American Nature Poetry in the Suburban Age." His poetry has appeared in The Seneca Review, the William & Mary Review, Streetlight, and the Antietam Review, among other places. Ryan's writing can also be found at ryanboydpoetry.wordpress.com and The General Reader.


CV available upon request.


Teaching

  • Associate: English 10, "American Environments" (Summer 2009, Session B)
  • Associate: English 103A, American Literature 1789-1900 (Summer 2008, Session A)
  • Teaching Assistant: Writing 2, Academic Writing (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)
  • TA: English 150, Anglo-Irish Literature (Spring 2007)
  • TA: English/Global Studies 122NW, "Narratives of War" (Winter 2007)
  • TA: English 104A, American Literature 1900-Present (Fall 2006)

Interests

  • creative writing (poetry)
  • nature & poetry; environmental criticism
  • environmental history
  • Romanticism and its discontents
  • light verse
  • the literature & history of drugs
  • dystopias
  • the post-Hazlitt essay
  • affect!
  • public intellectuals

Education

  • M.A., English: University of California, Santa Barbara (2007)
  • B.A., English: The College of William & Mary (2004)

Contact Information


Page on UCSB English Dept. website

ryanboydpoetry.wordpress.com

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