Ryan Boyd (@ryanaboyd) lives in Los Angeles, where he is on the faculty of the University of Southern California's Writing Program. He has a BA from the College of William & Mary and a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

What We’re Owed: John Warner on the Future of Higher Education
Ryan Boyd reviews John Warner’s latest book, “Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education.”...

“This Long Whine”: George Scialabba’s Depressions
Ryan Boyd on George Scialabba’s “How To Be Depressed.”...

Zoom and Gloom: Universities in the Age of COVID-19
Ryan Boyd considers two new books on higher education....

“The Students Are the Material”: David Gooblar and the Art of College Teaching
Ryan Boyd reviews “The Missing Course” by David Gooblar....

Generous Worlds: Rethinking the Fate of the American University
Ryan Boyd reviews Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.”...

Beautiful Questions: “How Humans Learn” and the Future of Education
“‘How Humans Learn’ is a splendid repository of ways to rethink how we teach college.” Ryan Boyd reviews Joshua R. Eyler’s new book....

Students Want to Write Well; We Don’t Let Them
Ryan Boyd reviews John Warner’s new manifesto for the writing classroom....

“Living in the Shadows of the Dead”: Cathy Otten’s “With Ash on Their Faces”
Cathy Otten’s new book tells the tragic story of the Yezidi women taken captive by ISIS....
