Colleen Glenney Boggs
Born1971 (age 52–53)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
ThesisTransnationalism 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.

Education and career

Boggs has a B.A. from Yale University,[2] 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

  • Boggs, Colleen Glenney (2009-02-12). Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773–1892. New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203940792. ISBN 978-0-203-94079-2.
  • Boggs, Colleen Glenney (2010). "American Bestiality: Sex, Animals, and the Construction of Subjectivity". Cultural Critique. 76 (76): 98–125. doi:10.1353/cul.2010.a402871. ISSN 0882-4371. JSTOR 40925347. S2CID 142817274.
  • Boggs, Colleen (2013-01-08). Animalia Americana. Columbia University Press. doi:10.7312/bogg16122. ISBN 978-0-231-53194-8.
  • Boggs, Colleen Glenney (2015). "The Civil War's "Empty Sleeve" and the Cultural Production of Disabled Americans". J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. 3 (1): 41–65. doi:10.1353/jnc.2015.0007. ISSN 2166-7438. S2CID 159739479.
  • Teaching the literatures of the American Civil War. Colleen Glenney Boggs. New York. 2016. ISBN 978-1-60329-275-7. OCLC 933438275.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Patriotism by Proxy: The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863-1865 (Oxford University Press, 2020) ISBN 978-0-19-886367-0
  • "Introduction to 'Poetics of Fact, Politics of Fact'"—a "theories and methodologies" essay cluster co-edited with Chenxi Tang (Berkeley), PMLA 134.5 (2019): 1109–1114.

Awards and honors

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

References

  1. ↑ "Boggs, Colleen Glenney". id.loc.gov. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Colleen Glenney Boggs | Department of English and Creative Writing". english.dartmouth.edu. 2 April 2013. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  3. ↑ Boggs, Colleen Glenney (2001). The American translation (Thesis). OCLC 753858503.
  4. ↑ Bogs, Colleen Glenney (2007). Transnationalism and American literature: literary translation 1773-1892 (Thesis). New York: Routledge. OCLC 470541610.
  5. ↑ "fellows15-16 | American Antiquarian Society". www.americanantiquarian.org. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  6. ↑ "Virtual Public Program - Patriotism by Proxy | American Antiquarian Society". www.americanantiquarian.org. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  7. ↑ "Futures of American Studies Institute". www.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  8. 1 2 Boggs, Colleen Glenney (2013). Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-53194-8.
  9. ↑ Erben, Patrick M. (2008). "Review of Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation, 1773-1892". Early American Literature. 43 (3): 725–732. ISSN 0012-8163. JSTOR 27750099.
  10. ↑ Eckel, Leslie (2008). "Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773–1892 (review)". The Comparatist. 32 (1): 228–229. doi:10.1353/com.0.0015. ISSN 1559-0887. S2CID 144496620.
  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.
  12. ↑ "Colleen Glenney Boggs". Department of English and Creative Writing. 2013-04-02. Retrieved 2022-03-05.
  13. ↑ "MemberListB | American Antiquarian Society". www.americanantiquarian.org. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
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