Nicholas T Boggs

Twentieth and twenty-first century literatures in English, especially American literature and African American literature; James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison; gender and sexuality studies; literary biography; hybrid genres; creative writing.

Modern Language Association; Association of Writing Professionals; Board of Directors, The Millay Colony for the Arts.

Fellowship, The Camargo Foundation Core Program, Cassis, France, 2018; Residency, The Corporation of Yaddo, 2017; Residency, The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, 2016; Scholarship in Non-Fiction, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, 2011-2013; Jerome Foundation Travel Grant, Paris and Saint Paul-de-Vence, France, 2013; Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, 2012 and 2011; Residency, The Corporation of Yaddo, 2010; Artist's Fellowship in Literature, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 2008; Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Humanities, Wesleyan University, 2005-2006; Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University, 2003-2004.

Nicholas Boggs was an undergraduate at Yale when he discovered James Baldwin's out-of-print "children's book for adults," Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (1976) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The senior thesis he wrote about it was published in the anthology James Baldwin Now (NYU, 1999). A subsequent essay on Little Man Little Man that draws on his interviews in Paris with the book's illustrator, French artist Yoran Cazac, appears in The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin (2015). This research led him to co-edit and write the introduction to a new edition of Little Man, Little Man (Duke UP, 2018), which the New York Times wrote "couldn't be more timely" and Entertainment Weekly hailed as "brilliant, essential." He was interviewed by the New York Times and Publisher's Weekly for their feature articles on Little Man, Little Man and he appeared on Madeleine Brand's Press Play on KCRW , on Black America TV , and on a panel at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture moderated by Jacqueline Woodson, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.  The recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Camargo Foundation, he is currently at work on a literary biography of Baldwin, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.