Colleen Glenney Boggs | |
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| Born | 1971 (age 53–54) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Thesis | Transnationalism and American literature : literary translation 1773-1892 (2007) |
Colleen Glenney Boggs (born 1971) [1] is the Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. In 2019, she was elected as a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society.
Boggs has a B.A. from Yale University, [2] [ when? ] and earned an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 2001. [3] In 2007, Boggs earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago where she wrote on transnationalism in American literature. [4] From 2015 until 2016, Boggs was a fellow with the American Antiquarian Society / National Endowment for the Humanities. [5] [6] As of 2021, she is the Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College [2] and serves as co director for Dartmouth's Summer Institute on Futures of American Studies. [7]
Boggs is a scholar of nineteenth century American literature and specializes in literatures of the Civil War, animal studies, [8] transatlantic, literary theory and gender. [2] [8] Reviews of her books have appeared in journals, including 2008 reviews [9] [10] of her book Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773–1892 and a review [11] of her 2016 book on Teaching the literatures of the American Civil War.
In 2019, she was elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society. She is currently launching a public humanities project (with Professors Carolyn Dever, Christie Harner, and Ivy Schweitzer): “There’s No Place Like Home: 19th Century Women Writers and the Opportunities of Home” addresses humanistic questions raised by the COVID pandemic. [12]
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)Boggs was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 2019. [13]