Jennifer Finney Boylan (FULL YEAR SABBATICAL) Professor of English English

Phone: 207-859-5264 Fax: 859-5252 Email: Jenny.Boylan@colby.edu Mailing Address: 5264 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8852 Semester Schedule

Areas of Expertise:

Fiction writing and teaching fiction writing English composition American literature Gender studies

Professional Information

Jenny Boylan has published seven novels. Before coming to Colby College in 1988 she worked with the original cast of Saturday Night Live as managing editor of "American Bystander" magazine, and also served on the editorial staffs at Penguin Books, Viking Press, and E.P. Dutton Inc. She was the Charles Walker Bassett "Professor of the Year" at Colby in 2000-01. Her academic concerns include fiction writing, American literature, composition, and gender studies. Visit her home page for information about her books at http://members.aol.com/Jfinneyboy/

Publications

The Planets (1991) Getting In (1997), Getting In, 1998 She's Not There, 2003