Ronald A. Bosco (1945–) is Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and general editor for The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard University Press). A past president of the Thoreau Society and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, Professor Bosco also lectures on the influence of Calvinist thought in American culture. His recent collaboration with Joel Myerson, The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters, was published by Oxford University Press in 2006.