John Boe
- Lecturer
Davis, CA 95616
Office Hours: M 10:30-11:30, W 10-11
Education:
- Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 1974
- M.A. University of California at Berkeley, 1967
- B.A. Amherst College, 1965
Biography:
John Boe has been a Lecturer in English at UC Davis since 1981, teaching a range of writing courses and occasional literature courses (most frequently Children's Literature and Shakespeare). He will be teaching Shakespeare in London this summer for UCD Summer Sessions.
He has also served as the English Department's Director of Compositon and Director of the Campus Writing Center and Assistant Director of Compostion, Lower Division.
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1965
- First Prize, H.R. Roberts Literary Awards, Informal Essay Category , 1991
- Excellence in Teaching Award, U.C. Davis, 1991
- Professional Development Leave, Spring 1991, Winter 1998
Professional storyteller with featured performances at numerous venues, including the Bay Area Storytelling Festival, the Sonoma Storytelling Festival, the Diablo Valley College Ethnic Storytelling Festival, Picnic Day, Dominican College, the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, the Vasity Theater, the Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, and various radio and television appearances, including on ABC's 20/20
Commercially released performance cassette, The Bongo Poet and Other Stories About Music: John Boe and the Steve Slagle Trio., and CD, "Sex and Laughter".
Publications:
- Life Itself: Messiness is Next to Goddessness and Other Essays (Chiron Publications), a collection of humorous, psychological, and literary essays.
- Your Joke is in the E-mail: Cyberlaffs from Mousepotatoes , co-authored, (Ten Speed Press), a collection of e-mail jokes with humorous commentary.
- Writing on the Edge , ed., UC Davis's journal of writing and teaching writing, now in its fourteenth year.
FBI Special Agent is Guest Speaker in Stephen Magagnini's Journalism Class
Writing on the Edge and Prized Writing 20th Year Publication Celebration