Michael Boyden is Chair Professor of English at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where he has worked since 2021. Prior to his appointment at Radboud University he was an associate professor of American literature at Uppsala University, Sweden, and, before that, an assistant professor at Ghent University, Belgium. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Leuven, Belgium, in 2006. He has been a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University and
held visiting positions at Dartmouth College and Brigham Young University.