Colleen Glenney Boggs (born 1971) 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, and earned an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 2001. In 2007, Boggs earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago where she wrote on transnationalism in American literature. From 2015 until 2016, Boggs was a fellow with the American Antiquarian Society / National Endowment for the Humanities. As of 2021, she is the Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College and serves as co director for Dartmouth's Summer Institute on Futures of American Studies.
Boggs is a scholar of nineteenth century American literature and specializes in literatures of the Civil War, animal studies, transatlantic, literary theory and gender. Reviews of her books have appeared in journals, including 2008 reviews of her book Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773âÂÂ1892 and a review 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): âÂÂThereâÂÂs No Place Like Home: 19th Century Women Writers and the Opportunities of Homeâ addresses humanistic questions raised by the COVID pandemic.
Boggs was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 2019.