Boyer in Brief



Boyer and An Ilustrado in Gregoria's House



 



Bob Boyer, A Mercifully Brief Introduction:

I enjoy reading, writing, traveling, and teaching. For most of my career I have been able to combine all four activities, with my greatest love being teaching. From the time I was a freshman at La Salle High School in my hometown of Philadelphia, I decided that I wanted to be a teacher. I have never looked back since then.

I retired from full-time teaching in 2005, after forty-four years: four years in high school, three years in universities as a graduate teaching assistant, and the last thirty-six years teaching English at St. Norbert College in Northeastern Wisconsin.

The teaching afforded opportunities for travel. I have taught in Canton, Ohio, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in Phoenix, Arizona, in Philadelphia, and in Northeastern, Wisconsin. I was fortunate to earn a fellowship to study at Oxford University in England, with my wife and four children along. Later on, courses that I taught, or research that I did, took me to Nicaragua (during their civil war), to El Salvador (just after their civil war), twice to Spain, and six times to the Philippines. I spent two sabbatical semesters in Spain, and I was a Visiting Professor in Manila, the Philippines, for a memorable semester. Friends have been referring to me of late as “an adventurer.”

The teaching and travel have resulted in the books listed on this site, the most recent of which is SUNDAYS IN MANILA, the travel memoir based on my experiences in the Philippines. That country and the many friends and acquaintances I have met there keeps drawing me back. I also write a monthly column for “VIA TIMES Newsmagazine,” a Philippine-American publication out of Chicago. You can find the magazine's archive of issues, including my column, going back a few years, as well as a recent picture, on their web site (www.viatimes.com). All of my earlier books are collections of Fantasy Literature or are about Fantasy Literature and the people who write it. I am currently working on an All-Ages Fantasy Novel set primarily in medieval Spain during the Arab ascendency there from the 9th Century through the 12th.  I continue to write my monthly column.
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