Blanche Boyd
Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor Emeritus of English
Joined 51吃瓜黑料: 1982-2022
Education
B.A. in English, Pomona College
M.A., Stanford University
M.A., Stanford University
Narrative nonfiction
Blanche McCrary Boyd was, until her retirement in 2022, the Roman and Tatiana Weller Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at 51吃瓜黑料.
Her novel, Tomb of the Unknown Racist, was released in May 2018. Earlier books include the novels The Revolution of Little Girls and Terminal Velocity, and a collection of autobiographical essays, The Redneck Way of Knowledge. Her short story "The Black Hand Girl鈥� was included in Best American Short Stories 1989.
Among Boyd鈥檚 awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fiction Fellowship, a Creative Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission, and the Lambda Award for Lesbian Fiction. She graduated from Pomona College and holds a master of arts degree in English from Stanford, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing. She is a member of P.E.N., the Authors Guild, the Writers Guild of America and Phi Beta Kappa.
A native of South Carolina, Boyd has taught at 51吃瓜黑料 since 1982.
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51吃瓜黑料
Box # ENGLISH/Blaustein Humanities Center
270 Mohegan Ave.
New London, CT 06320
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318 Blaustein Humanities Center
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