Currently, he is the editor of the quarterly magazine Salmagundi,[1] Professor of English at Skidmore College, and Director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute, which he founded in 1987.
He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Queens College in 2003, on the fortieth anniversary of his graduation from that institution.
He has been serving as Director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute since 1987,[5] and was adjunct professor of Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty from 1993 to 2017.
[14] Though he has continued to write literary and cultural criticism, Boyers also published in 2005 a book of short stories called Excitable Women, Damaged Men, discovering there what he called a new freedom and a new voice, which led him to move in a direction he had not anticipated for himself.
"My objective," Boyers writes, "is to dramatize my encounter with ideas the better to identify what has made them difficult and elusive, sometimes dangerous."
[24] As Editor of Salmagundi for more than fifty years, Boyers has sponsored the work of many leading writers and thinkers and devoted more than two dozen special issues to the publication of conference transcripts on such subjects as "The Clash of Civilizations,"[25] "Race & Racism," "Is This An Age of Museums," "{Intellectuals," "Psychological Man,"[26] "Belief and Unbelief,"[27] "Good Art, Bad Art," "Identity," and "The Legacy of the German Refugee Intellectuals.