 |
Associate ProfessorA.B., Harvard College Carney Hall 465 Phone: 617-552-3810 |
Academic Profile
Amy currently teaches and researches in several fields: Early Modern British (especially seventeenth century); adolescent literature; and creative non-fiction. Recent articles include Milton and the New World, forthcoming in Milton in Context (Cambridge, 2010) and The (Young Adult) Novel and the Police: Nancy Drew in the 1930s (forthcoming in Studies in the Novel, 2010). Boesky is author of What We Have (forthcoming in Gotham Books, spring 2010), and is currently writing a book on girlhood and the rise of adolescence, 1850-1945. Amy also has an essay forthcoming this June on Stephanie Meyer's Twilight seriers. She is also author of Founding Fictions: Utopias in Early Modern England (University of Georgia, 1996) and co-editor, with Mary Crane, of Form and Reform: Essays in Honor of Barbara Lewalski (University of Delaware, 2000), as well as articles on a range of subjects in early modern England. Teaching interests include all aspects of adolescent literature; creative nonfiction; early modern culture and literature; early biography and autobiography.
Courses
- EN133.03 - Narrative Interpretation
- EN154.01 - Introduction to Adolescent Fiction
- EN522.01 - Advanced Nonfiction: Memoir, Biography, Profile
- EN785.01 - Stuart Literature and Culture
Publications (selected)
- Founding Fictions: Utopias in Early Modern England (1996).
- Ed., with Mary Crane, Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski (2000).
- "Double time: Women, Watches, and the Gift of Eternity," The Double Voice: Gendered Writing in Early Modern England (2000).
- "Milton, Galileo and Sunspots: Optics and Certainty in Paradise Lost," Milton Studies,
Vol. 34 (Winter, 1997), 23-42.
Additional Professional Information
Regularly teaches Milton, Writing the Self in Early Modern England, Early Women Writers, Stuart Literature and Culture, and Introduction to British Literature.