Michael Boyden is Professor of American literature at the Université de Fribourg. Prior to his appointment at Fribourg, he was affiliated with Radboud University, the University of Uppsala, and Ghent University. He received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Leuven in a program that included periods of study at Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Edinburgh and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He has published on the impact of translation on narrative texts and migrant literature, including themes such as self-translation, code switching and literary diglossia. His current research focuses on the reception of foreign revolutionary ideas in American literature in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Contact: michael.boyden@unifr.ch
