Holly Collins

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.