Rate My Professor Joyce Boss

At Wartburg College, Boss holds multiple leadership positions, including Co-Director of Multicultural and Diversity Studies, Coordinator for the Diversity Across the Curriculum program, and advisor for students in the Intercultural Studies minor. She previously directed the Study Abroad Programs from 2006 to 2018 and chaired the English & Modern Languages Department from 2010 to 2018. Her teaching encompasses world literature and cinema, myth and folklore, environmental literature, intercultural communication, and May Term travel courses to Japan and Greece. Boss's research interests lie in the intersections between folklore and sacred geographies, focusing on Japan’s traditional pilgrimage sites, as well as Godzilla and Japanese popular culture, on which she has published and presented broadly. Her dedication to faculty achievement and campus leadership has earned her Wartburg College’s Spirit of Student Life Award for Faculty Achievement in 2011 and for Campus Leadership & Service in 2015.