Holly Collins
Associate Professor of French
Research/Teaching Interests
- 19th-century French literature
- 20th- and 21st-century Francophone studies
- Medical French
- Baylor in Paris
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., University of New Mexico
B.A., Mercer University
Courses Taught at Baylor
- Intermediate French (FRE 2310)
- Passport to the French-Speaking World (FRE 2320)
- French for Health Professions (FRE 2321)
- Conversational French (FRE 3302)
- Conversation and Composition in Paris (FRE 3320)
- Advanced Conversation and Composition (FRE 3325)
- Around the Francophone World in 45 Days (FRE 3328)
- Paris: A Cultural Overview (FRE 3340)
- Francophone Culture and Literature (FRE 4328)
- French Writers and Ideas I & II (FRE 4331& 4332)
Selected Publications
“The Ethics of Gender, Domination, and History in the Literature of Dany Laferrière and Marie-Célie Agnant.” NaKaN. A Journal of Cultural Studies 5 (2024).
“Why French Colonial Anti-Semitism Matters Here and Now.” The International Journal of Literary Humanities 20.1 (2021/2): 21-35.
“Monumental Constructions: Statues, Identity, and Gabrielle Roy’s ‘L’arbre.’” Quebec Studies 72 (2021): 97-117.
“Reconstructed and Neo-Slave Narratives in French: Filling the Gap through Literature and Archives.” International Journal of Francophone Studies 24.1&2 (2021): 29-48.
“From Trauma to Drama in Groupov’s Rwanda 94: Creating a Polymorphous Space for Witnessing (to) the Rwandan Genocide.” With Jacob Abell. International Journal of Francophone Studies 20.3-4 (September 2017): 273-291.
“La querelle de la Créolisation: Creolization vs. Créolité in Glissant, Condé and the Creolists.” Nottingham French Studies 56.1 (2017): 67-81.
“Relations of Americanness, Hybridity and the Trans(multi)cultural: Studying Francophone Literatures in the U.S. ” Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 68 & 69 (Fall 2016): 131-163.
“Between Enigma and Concrete Reality: Identity in Dany Laferrière’s L’Énigme du retour and Tout bouge autour de moi.” Australasian Canadian Studies 33.1-2 (2016): 53-71.
“Immigration and Abandonment in Ryad Assani-Razaki’s Deux cercles and La main d’Iman.” South Central Review 33.3 (2016): 18-37.