Professor Molly Boggs is available to meet with Sweet Briar students, faculty and staff to discuss any kind of writing project, including assignments for class, personal statements for graduate school, public-facing writing or anything you can think of. She is also available to supervise honors research projects in the humanities. Schedule a meeting
Professor Boggs is most passionate about helping students become confident writers and researchers. She has been teaching college writing for more than a decade, and has taught courses in professional writing, writing for international students, writing for first-generation college students and introductory courses in literature.
Every fall, she teaches ENCW 100: The Developing Writer, a course for incoming first-year students. In fall 2025, Professor Boggs is also teaching a section of CORE 110: Design Thinking about space and place on the Sweet Briar campus. In spring 2025, she will be teaching a new 1-credit class, Academic Writing Lab, meant to be taken alongside a class with a substantial research paper requirement.
Courses Taught
ENCW 100: The Developing Writer
CORE 110: Design Thinking
Professor Boggs received a Ph.D. in English with a concentration in Victorian literature from Indiana University in 2020. Her dissertation, “Someone Else’s Home,” explored 19th-century fiction and prose about London apartment life, focusing on the experience of living alongside strangers. She has published on fictional landladies and how they embodied concerns about women’s economic power and the new living conditions of modernity. She is currently working on an article about the role of 19th-century medical technology in the 2015 video game Bloodborne (forthcoming in 2025). Professor Boggs enjoys coming up with research projects that cross multiple disciplines. Her past research has involved economic history, medical history, history of science and film studies.
In her spare time, Professor Boggs likes reading scary stories, dominating at weekly trivia on an all-Sweet Briar team and spending time outside in nature. She lives in Lynchburg with her partner, Vincent Vecera, who teaches political science at Randolph College; their two children, Abe (7) and Daria (5); and their perfect angel of a cat, Sweet Dee.