Distinguished Professor General Editor of The
Bosco graduated with an Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Fairfield University in 1967. Master of Arts in Philosophy: Value Theory from Purdue University in 1970. And Doctor of Philosophy in English and American Literature from the University of Maryland in 1975.
At UAlbany since 1975 and an editor of the Emerson Papers at Harvard"s Houghton Library since 1977, Bosco has lectured and published extensively on Puritan homiletics and poetics, nineteenth-century American intellectual and literary history, and the theory and practice of documentary and textual editing. In 2003, on the occasion of Emerson"s 200th birthday, he delivered the commemorative lecture, "What Poems are Many Private Lives," at the Emerson House in Concord, Massachusetts, for the Emerson family and the Town of Concord. In April 2007, Bosco was invited to participate in the forum "Re-conceiving Self and Society: The American Renaissance in Retrospect" at Soka University of America.
Other participants included Sarah Wider (Colgate University), Kenneth M. Price (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), and Jim Merod (Soka University of America).
