Visiting Fellow Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK. 2011; 2014-15; and 2017
ANN C. COLLEY
332 Ashland Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14222
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EDUCATION:
University of Chicago:Ph.D. in English with honors, March, 1983.
University of Virginia:M.A. in English, 1964.
College of William & Mary:A. B. in English, 1962.
EXPERIENCE:
Visiting Fellow Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK. 2011; 2014-15; and 2017.
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Emerita 2017-
State University College of New York: SUNY Distinguished Professor,
2009-2017
State University College of New York at Buffalo: Professor of English, 1991- Present Associate Professor, 1985-1990.
Daemen College: Tenured Associate Professor of English, 1982-85.
Fisk University: Tenured Assistant Professor, 1973-82; Instructor, 1969-73.
Chicago Circle Campus of the University of Illinois: Part-time Instructor in English, 1966-68.
GRANTS
New York Council for the Arts Fellowship. 2006 This fellowship provided funding for the Stevenson International Conference. The fellowship allowed Dr. Colley to hire a part-time faculty member and a graduate English Department student from Buffalo State College to assist her in the organization of the conference. The fellowship plus money from the Research Foundation also paid for the keynote speaker and various publications. Dr. Colley directed the conference. ($10,000)
Research Incentive Funds from the Research Foundation of Buffalo State College. 2006. Dr. Colley has received several grants from the Research Foundation. These grants have allowed her not only to do research for her publications but also, over a period of several years, to work with the Research Foundation to meet with young or new faculty members to encourage them to apply for grants. She has been successful in getting a number of new English Department faculty to apply for and receive grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Provost Incentive Funds, Fulbright Association, and, most recently, from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. ($15,000)
American Fulbright Senior Fellow. Kiev, Ukraine. September, 1999 -June, 2000. This was Dr. Colley’s second Fulbright award. She taught American literature at Shevshenko University and established, with funding from the Fulbright Association, a library of contemporary literary criticism at that University. She also has been responsible, through her Fulbright Fellowship, for finding funding so that Ukrainian Scholars can come to the United States to do research. ($60,000 plus generated funds for Scholars)
Yet another result of this grant is that Dr. Colley has served the National Fulbright Association as a member of the Central Eurasia Peer Review Committee, 2003-2006. In this capacity, she has been responsible for determining which of the applicants from the USA receives a Fulbright Senior Fellow and Research Grant.
American Philosophical Society Grant, 1999. Through this grant, Dr. Colley was able to travel to London and complete the research for her Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination. She has also written several articles as a result of this research. ($2,000)
In the fall, 2007, the American Philosophical Society invited Dr. Colley to be a member of its committee to review their applications. Once more Dr. Colley is instrumental in helping others receive funding.
Provost’s Incentive Grants: 2002-2003; 2004 -2005; 2009. These competitive grants have allowed Dr. Colley to travel and conduct her research. ($6,500)
American Fulbright Senior Fellow. Warsaw, Poland. 1995-1996. This grant is the first of two Fulbrights awarded to Dr. Colley. For one year she taught at the University of Warsaw. She also helped scholars at the University of Warsaw find funding, through the Fulbright Association, to come to the United States in order to do research. Her efforts financed at least three colleagues in her department at the University of Warsaw. ($50,000 plus money generated for scholars)
UUP Individual Development Award: 2002 and 2005. ($2,000)
UUP Classroom Scholarship Grant. 1993-94. This grant gave funding to allow Dr. Colley to gather materials to help develop a new course at Buffalo State College. ($1,000)
Center for the Development of Human Services Grant, 1995. This grant allowed Dr. Colley to develop one of her courses at Buffalo State College and allowed her to assist others who might need the expertise of her subject matter.($1,000)
Faculty Awards Program, 1990; Experienced Faculty Travel Award, 1988; Research Incentive Funds, 1988, and Research Funds, 1988. Through these various competitive awards, Dr. Colley has been allowed to fund her research and encourage others at Buffalo State College to apply for similar assistance. ($5,000)
National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar. “Biography and Intention,” Princeton University with Professor Ralph Freedman, 1979. This seminar supported course work as well as publication. ($10,000)
National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar. “The Nineteenth-Century Epic,” University of California, Berkeley with Professor U. C. Knoepflmacher, 1975. This seminar supported course work as well as publication. ($10,000)
Director, Mellon Foundation, Fisk University. 1979-80. Directed and organized seminars for the entire faculty of Fisk University. These seminars were designed to improve teaching materials and teaching techniques. The faculty received a stipend for these activities.
Danforth Association Associate, 1980. Awarded funding to attend seminars sponsored by the Danforth Association.
United Negro College Fund Grant, 1980. Funds to complete Ph. D. ($13,000)
AWARDS
Named SUNY (State University of New York) Distinguished Professor. September, 2009.
Honored for Research and Scholarship in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences by the
Research Foundation and the Chancellor of the State University of New York, December 16, 2002 in Albany, New York.
The President’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Research, and Creativity. SUNY College at Buffalo, 1998.
The President’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Research, and Creativity. SUNY College at Buffalo, 1991.
The Search for Synthesis in Literature and Art: The Paradox of Space (1990) nominated for three literary book awards.
University of Chicago: Outstanding Dissertation of the Year, English Department, 1983. This dissertation was also nominated for the Humanities Award, 1983.
Outstanding Teacher Award. Fisk University. 1972; SUNY College at Buffalo, spring,
2009, awarded by a leadership fraternity.
FUNDING AND TEACHING GRADUATES AND UNDERGRADUATES:
Throughout her career, Dr. Colley has had a reputation for being an enthusiastic and excellent teacher. She has taught hundreds of undergraduates and has offered graduate classes to over 200 graduate students whom she has not only directed in class but also guided in their comprehensive exams and theses. Her influence on those who have gone on to become teachers is immense. She has also influenced those who have chosen to take graduate work and go on to receive their Ph.D. Students write of her treating them “with respect,” and of “offering one of the best classes [they] have ever had.” They speak of her creating “a comfortable learning environment” and of her being “the best teacher I have ever had in the four years here.”
Most recently, she was responsible for an undergraduate English major receiving full funding for graduate work at Brock University. She has also helped students receive fellowships from graduate schools, including the University of Toronto and to SUNY at Buffalo. She has helped these students not only through her classes but also through her assistance in locating possibilities, helping them write their applications, and by contacting those in charge of granting funds. She has, moreover, supported her undergraduate students by encouraging them to present papers at the College’s Research and Creativity Days. In addition, Dr. Colley has aided students who have wanted to teach English as a Second Language abroad. Two of her former students are now in Japan.
Ever since she began teaching at Buffalo State College in 1985, Dr. Colley has encouraged her students to apply for funding opportunities and has helped them participate in the National Student Exchange programs and in Study Abroad Programs. She has often sat on College committees to promote the study abroad programs and spent much time in the selection process. In the last five years, she has also been directly instrumental in the granting of three Fulbright Fellowships to Buffalo State College undergraduates. She met with these Buffalo State College students, worked with them on the writing of their application essays, and helped them with the interview process. These students have, as a result, been teaching in France, Spain, and England. One is currently teaching in York, England.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
MLA [Modern Language Association] Executive Committee: Victorian Period. 2006-2010. Chair of the Executive Committee (2009-2010).
Director and Founder of “Conversations in and out of the Disciplines” Lecture Series at Buffalo State College, 2009 to the Present.
Fulbright Senior Scholar Central Eurasia Peer Review Committee: CIES. 2003-06.
Chair, Honorary Degree Committee, SUNY College at Buffalo, 2016.
College Planning Council: SUNY College at Buffalo, 2002 - 2006
Chair, Distinctiveness Task Force: Strategic Planning, SUNY College at Buffalo. 2001-2002.
Chair, Provost Search Committee, SUNY College at Buffalo, 1998-1999.
Presidential Task Force, SUNY College at Buffalo, 1996-2000.
Chair, Honorary Degree Committee, SUNY College at Buffalo, 1999-2000.
Chair, Personnel Committee, Department of English, SUNY College at Buffalo, 2004--2005.
Chair, Recruitment Committee, Department of English, SUNY College at Buffalo, 1996-1997, 1998-1999, and 2001-2002.
Organized Scholarship and Creativity Day: “Works in Progress” 2000.
Coordinator, Strategic Plan Steering Committee, SUNY College at Buffalo, 1993, 1994.
Director of Mellon Grant, Fisk University, 1980.
Acting Head of the English Department, Fisk University, 1979-80.
PUBLICATIONS
Please see attached selections from reviews of Dr. Colley’s books listed below.
BOOKS
Colley, Ann C. Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain. Aldershot, England. Ashgate [now Routledge] Publishing Limited. December, 2014.
______.Victorians in the Mountains: Sinking the Sublime. Aldershot, England.
Ashgate Publishing Limited. December, 2010.
______. Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited. 2004.
______. Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture. Basingstoke, England: Macmillan Press. November, 1998. The book is published by St. Martin's Press in the United States.
______. Edward Lear and the Critics. Camden House, Inc. 1993. Edward Lear and the Critics is now digitized on netLibrary.com.
______. The Search for Synthesis in Literature and Art: The Paradox of Space. The University of Georgia Press. 1990.
______. Tennyson and Madness. The University of Georgia Press. 1983.
______with Judith K. Moore. Starting with Poetry. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
1973.
______with William Kumbier. Afterimages: Festschrift for Irving Massey.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Collecting the Live and the Skinned.” Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture. Ed.
Laurence W. Mazzeno and Ronald D. Morrison. London: Palgrave, 2017. 21-40.
“Twaddle and Lies: Letters in Stevenson’s Later Fiction.” Robert Louis Stevenson. Ed.
Richard J. Hill. London: Routledge, 2017.
“Exposure and Image: A Visual Approach.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Robert
Louis Stevenson. Ed. Caroline McCracken-Flesher. New York: Modern Language
Association, 2013. 141-46.
“Hybridity and Stevenson’s South Seas Fiction” included in a collection of essays on
hybridity. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2010.
“The Ordeal of Landscape” in Proceedings of the 2008 Biennual Robert
Louis Stevenson International Conference held in Bergamo, Italy.
“An Elegy for Nancy Burke” in Essays Honoring Nancy Burke. University of Warsaw
Press, 2006. (15 pages).
“Bodies and Mirrors” in Interior Design Theory Reader. Eds. Mark Taylor and Julieanna
Preston. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. May, 2006.
“Conrad, Stevenson and Cannibalism” in Stevenson and Conrad: Writers of Land and
Sea. Eds.Linda Dryden, Stephen Arata, & Eric Massie. Texas Tech. University
Press.[forthcoming] (25 pages).
“Explorations in American Poetics: Beyond the Boundaries of the Printed Page” in The Poetics of America: Explorations in the Literature and Culture of the United States. Ed. Agata Preis-Smith and Marek Paryz. Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2004. 133-50.
“The Landscape of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses” in Robert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered: Essays in honor of David Daiches. Ed. William
Bryan Jones. Wisconsin: McFarland Company, 2003.
“Bodies and Mirrors: The Childhood Interiors of Ruskin, Pater, and Stevenson” in Domestic Space: Reading the Nineteenth-Century Interior. Eds. I. Bryden and J.
Floyd. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1999. 40-58.
CHAPTERS IN REFERENCE BOOKS
“Robert Louis Stevenson.” The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Ed. Dino Franco
Felluga. Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
“Writing Towards Home: The Landscape of A Child’s Garden of Verses” Children’s
Literature Review. Gale Press, 2005 and 2008.
“Edward Lear’s Anti-Colonial Bestiary” in Poetry Criticism. Gale Press. August, 2005. (11
pages).
“The Quest for the ‘Nameless’ in Tennyson's ‘The Lady of Shalott’.” Poetry for Students.
The Gale Group and GaleNet. Spring, 2002.
“The Limerick and the Space of Metaphor” in Poetry Criticism. Gale Press, August, 2005.
(37 pages).
“Edward Lear's Limericks and the Reversals of Nonsense.” Children's Literature Review.
The Gale Group. Vol. 75. Winter, 2001 and reprinted in 2006.
“Edward Lear's Nonsense” in Humour in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British
Literature: A Reference Guide. Ed. Don L. F. Nilsen. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press. 1998. 204-06.
“Tennyson's The Idylls of the King” in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 30.
Eds. Laurie DiMauro and Paula Kepou. London: Gale Research Inc. 287-93.
ARTICLES
“The Morbid and the Trendy.” Victorian Literature and Culture. 46:1 2018.
“Conversations with Oscar Wilde.” Victorian Literature and Culture. (Cambridge UP) V.
14, 2015, 188-195.
“Portrait, Empire, and Industry at the Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester” Victorian
Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press), 2013. 39 pages.
“Edward Lear and Victorian Animal Portraiture” Rivista di Studi Vittorianni. XVII-XVIII:
34-35 (2013): 11-26.
“Locating Home.” Journal of Stevenson Studies. 2011.
Invited to publish an article for a special issue of Victorian Review
dedicated to Victorian-Eco Systems. 2010.
Studies in English Literature (The Johns Hopkins University Press) commissioned Dr.
Colley to write the Year’s Review of Nineteenth-Century Studies (a review of 250
books) for 2007-2008. The article appeared as “Recent Studies in the Nineteenth
Century.” Studies in English Literature. 48:4 (autumn 2008). 935-1010.
“Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.” Studies in English Literature. 48:4 (Autumn
2008): 935-1010.
“John Ruskin: Climbing and the Vulnerable Eye.” Victorian Literature and Culture.
Cambridge University Press. (2009) 37: 43-65.
”Robert Louis Stevenson’s South Seas Crossings.” Studies in English Literature 48:4
(autumn 2008): 871-884.
“Journeying out of the Comfort Zone.” Rivista di Studi Vittoriani (Italy).Vol. 20, July, 2005.
167-189.
“Colonies of Memory.” Victorian Literature and Culture. Cambridge University Press.
Volume 31, No. 2, 2003. 405-427.
“Stevenson's Pyjamas.” Victorian Literature and Culture. Cambridge University Press.
30:1 (2002) 129-155.
“The Experience of Captivity in American Captivity and Slave Narratives.” [title in
Russian]. 3: 2 (December 2000): 210-217.
“Memory and Chinese Boxes.” Haykoba [title in Ukrainian]. Kiev, February, 2000. 140-
144.
“Reflections on the Teaching of American Literature.” Trans. into Ukrainian by Tamara
Denisova.Word and Time (Fulbright Journal, Ukraine). No. 9, 2000. 58-61.
“The American Slave Narrative as Literary Form.” [title in Ukrainian]. Odessa, 2000. 140-
142.
“Ruskin and Turner's ‘arrangements of remembrance’.” The Ruskin Gazette of the Ruskin
Society of London. 1: 10 (1997): 38-54.
“Writing Towards Home: The Landscape of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden
of Verses.” Victorian Poetry. 35: 3 (fall 1997): 303-318.
“Robert Louis Stevenson and the Idea of Recollection.” Victorian Literature and Culture.
25: 2 (1997): 203-224.
“Kate Chopin's The Awakening as Displaced Conversion Narrative.” Anglica (University of
Warsaw). Vol. 8. (January, 1996): 9-18.
“A Tennyson Letter in St. Petersburg.” The Tennyson Research Bulletin. Vol. 6.
( November, 1994): 202-06.
“Edward Lear's Anti-Colonial Bestiary.” Victorian Poetry. Vol. 30 (summer 1992): 109-
120.
“Mapping In and Out of the Boundaries of Time: Ruskin and Hopkins.” Victorian
Literature and Culture. Vol. 19 (1991): 107-121.
“From the Photograph to the Essay: Writing as Translation.” Writing on the Edge.
Vol. 3 (fall 1991): 50-60. University of California, Davis.
“Emily Tennyson's Deathbed.” Tennyson Research Bulletin. (fall, 1991).
“Nostalgia in the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle.” The Centennial Review. Vol. 25.
(winter 1991):167-184.
“Issues on the Teaching of Writing.” SUNY Council on Writing Proceedings. 1990.
“The Limerick and the Space of Metaphor.” Genre. 21:1 (spring 1988): 65-93.
“Edward Lear's Limericks and the Inversions of Nonsense.” Victorian Poetry. 26: 3. (autumn 1988): 285-300.
“Revision and Otherness.” The English Record. 39: 3. (1988): 2-9.
“G. M. Hopkins and the Idea of Mapping.” Word & Image. April-June, 1988. 523-528.
“Paul Klee and the Fantasy of Synthesis.” The Kenyon Review. summer, 1987. 1-15.
“A Defense of the ‘I’.” CEA Forum. Vol. 17. (1987-88): 10-13.
“Edward Lear and the Pre-Raphaelite Impossibility.” The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite
Studies. 7:1. (November, 1986): 5-7.
“The Risk of Chaos: A Revision for the Teaching of Writing.” The English Record.
37: 1 (1986): 5-7.
“The Quest for the ‘Nameless’ in Tennyson's ‘The Lady of Shalott’.” Victorian Poetry.
23:4. (winter 1985): 369-378.
“Edward Lear and Thomas Seddon: The Paradox of Inquiry.” The Journal of Pre-
Raphaelite Studies. 5:1. (November 1984): 36-48.
“Alfred Tennyson's ‘Four Crisises [sic]’” Another View of the Water Cure." The
Tennyson ResearchBulletin. 3: 2. (November 1979): 64-68.
“The Conflict Between Tradition and Modern Values in Tennyson's The Princess.” The
BucknellReview. (spring 1978): 37-48.
“Don L. Lee's ‘But He Was Cool or He Even Stopped for Green Lights’: An Example of
the New Black Aesthetic.” Concerning Poetry. 4: 2. 20-28.
MEMOIR
The Odyssey and Dr. Novak: A Memoir.SheWrites Press, May 2017.
EDITORSHIP
Guest Editor for spring, 2008 issue of Journal of Stevenson Studies. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Associate Editor: The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, 1984-87.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Crossways. University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. 2015
REVIEWS
Recently reviewed books for Victorian Studies (2016)
“Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.” Studies in English Literature. 48:4 (autumn
2008): 935-1010.
“The Idea of the Grotesque in Victorian Literature” in Criticism. (summer 2000) Vol. 42.
“Alison Rieke's The Senses of Nonsense.” Modern Fiction Studies. 39: 4. (1994).
“Thomas Jensen Hines's Collaborative Form.” Canadian Review of Comparative
Literature. Volume 19:4. (December, 1992): 637-640.
“Ladies of Shalott.” The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies. 6:1. (November 1985). 105.
“The Foreign Vision of Charlotte Bronte.” Victorian Studies. 20: 2. 200.
“Winifred Holtby: Yorkshire Writer.” Banc! Fisk University Library Special Collections.