English Department Faculty

Colleen Taylor

Assistant Professor, English & Irish Studies

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Colleen Taylor

Ph.D.

Contact

Email: taylorft@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Fordham University
  • M.Phil, Trinity College Dublin
  • Ph.D., Boston College

Department

English

Biography

Colleen Taylor specializes in eighteenth-century Irish and British literature and the environmental humanities. Her teaching and research explore how Irish ecologies facilitated cultural expression and colonial resistance. She is the author of聽Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830聽(Oxford University Press, 2024), and her articles on Irish literature and material culture have appeared in聽Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eire-Ireland,聽补苍诲听Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.聽Colleen previously held the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame and an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Award at University College Cork. Her current research project examines eighteenth-聽and nineteenth-century Irish culture through the blue humanities, theorizing聽the decolonial implications of Ireland's oceanic imagination.

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