Colleen Glenney Boggs

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Colleen Glenney Boggs
Born1971 (age 5152)
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.

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Education and career

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]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

Boggs was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 2019. [13]

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  4. Bogs, Colleen Glenney (2007). Transnationalism and American literature: literary translation 1773-1892 (Thesis). New York: Routledge. OCLC   470541610.
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  8. 1 2 Boggs, Colleen Glenney (2013). Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity. Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0-231-53194-8.
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  11. Adams, Richmond B. (2018). "Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War ed. by Colleen Glenney Boggs (review)". Journal of Southern History. 84 (2): 466–467. doi:10.1353/soh.2018.0124. ISSN   2325-6893. S2CID   166062873.
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