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][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

• 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]