Colleen Glenney Boggs

Colleen Glenney Boggs is an associate professor of American Literature at Dartmouth College and author of Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773-1892.

Pardon Me: The Turkey in American Life

Extending a loving gesture towards that larger nature – towards the living turkey and the larger ecology – is a way of reinventing our traditions in a way that remains quintessentially American.

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Lessons from Libya: Why America needs more language teachers

The idea that America has always been an English-only country promotes a false account of our past and our present. That false account justifies sweeping spending cuts in foreign language education that will make America less secure around the world, and less competitive in the global market

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Colleen Glenney Boggs

Pardon Me: The Turkey in American Life

Lessons from Libya: Why America needs more language teachers

A brief history of the birth control pill

The dirty dozen and clean 15 of produce

How much radiation is too much? A handy guide

Arab jokes you can laugh at

Quiz: Could YOU become a citizen?