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Ann C. Colley is a SUNY Distinguished Professor, Emerita, at the State University College of New York in Buffalo. She has written extensively on nineteenth-century British literature and culture and has published with presses including Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, the University of Georgia Press, Macmillan, Ashgate, Manchester University Press, Routledge, Palgrave, and Cambridge University Press. She has taught abroad on Fulbright Fellowships in Poland and Ukraine. In 2011, 2014-15, 2017, and, 2019, Colley was a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
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With Irving Massey, Ann Colley has traveled throughout South America, Central America, Nepal, Turkey, Morocco, Africa, Cape Verde, New Zealand, Armenia, Belarus, Hungary, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Ukraine. Always nostalgic for the landscape of home, she often returns to England, where she spent the first thirteen years of her life. In the summers she lives in the wilderness of Nova Scotia.
Solitary Walks along the East Anglia Coast
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SPECIAL EVENT: SCREENING AND BOOK LAUNCH
December 11, 2025 — Thursday, 5:30 p.m. Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo State University On the large screen in the Burchfield Penney auditorium, Ann Colley will be showing episodes from this audio/visual rendition. Solitary Walks along the East Anglia Coast is about her weekend walks while in residence as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. From October, 2019 until March 1, 2020, Ann was in Cambridge in order to research what was to become her 2023 literary study, Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with Euclid, published by the Cambridge University Press. Learn more about the book, here. 
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Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom — Walking with Euclid
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In 2023, Cambridge University Press published Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom - Walking with Euclid by Ann Colley. In the book, Colley outlines Coleridge’s alertness to the geometric idiom that helped shaped his responses to the landscape of his surroundings.
In particular, Colley explains why Euclid’s Elements was such a basic text in Coleridge’s cultural context. To guide the reader, the introduction outlines the book’s argument, and, the chapter summaries provide an overview of the author's research for the book, conducted while in residence at Cambridge. Learn more about the book, here. |
ROMANTICISM Volume 27.1 (2021): 28-45
Romantic Walking
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The journal, Romanticism, offers a forum for the best critical and scholarly work in Romantic studies today. The journal focuses on the literary period of 1750-1850, publishing research on critical, historical, textual and bibliographical aspects, representing a full range of current methological and theoretical debates. Volume 27.1 of the journal features work by Ann C. Colley: “Coleridge Walks: Boots and the Measure of the Landscape.” Romanticism 27.1 (2021), 28-45. Romanticism is published by the Edinburgh University Press. Read the work, here.
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The Odyssey and Dr. Novak: A Memoir
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In 2018, Ann C. Colley published The Odyssey and Dr. Novak: A Memoir. The book chronicles her experiences in Poland and Ukraine. Recalling personal experiences of living in Warsaw and Kiev, Colley creates a complex, composite portrait of Poland and Ukraine at a time between the fall of the Soviet Union and the recent resurgence of a Russian threat. She recalls moments that are disturbing, absurd, discordant, frustrating, humorous, and endearing: a missing parrot flying in through the window, a robber on a train threatening her life, clouds of smoke from Chernobyl hanging over Kiev.
Learn more about the memoir, here. |