Boria Sax
Boria Sax
About
Boria Sax is the author of a score of books, most recently Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Creation of a World before Time. His writing has won awards for scholarship and been translated into ten languages, into most of these multiple times. He has also won multiple awards for teaching including one from the organization Hudson Link in 2013 for “Lifetime Achievement” in prison education. He currently teaches at Sing Sing prison and in the online graduate English program of Թϱ University.
Boria Sax has taught a very wide range of courses in the graduate English Program at Թϱ University, some of which are as follows:
- Literary Theory;
- Creative Writing;
- Modernism;
- Fairy Tales:
- Transformation of the Epic:
- Confronting a Distressing Past;
- Reason and Imagination;
- Animals in Literature;
- The Masters Thesis.
On an undergraduate level, he has also taught a wide range of courses in traditional classrooms including Creative Writing- Poetry, The Short Story, European History, Classics in the Social Sciences, and Junior Seminar.
Boria Sax is currently finishing a book tentatively entitled The Man Who Dreamed He Was a Butterfly: Metamorphoses, Entomological and Human, scheduled to be published by Reaktion Books in London, England in Spring 2026. He is also co-editing a volume on The Cultural History of Birds in the Modern Era for Bloomsbury Publishers, as well as writing a chapter on "Birds in Myth, Religion, and Philosophy." It is scheduled for publication in June 2026.
The following are among the books by Boria Sax:
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