Holly Collins
Associate Professor of French
Research/Teaching Interests
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., University of New Mexico
B.A., Mercer University
Courses Taught at Baylor
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Intermediate French (FRE 2310)
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Passport to the French-Speaking World (FRE 2320)
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French for Health Professions (FRE 2321)
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Conversational French (FRE 3302)
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Conversation and Composition in Paris (FRE 3320)
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Advanced Conversation and Composition (FRE 3325)
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Around the Francophone World in 45 Days (FRE 3328)
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Paris: A Cultural Overview (FRE 3340)
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Francophone Culture and Literature (FRE 4328)
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French Writers and Ideas I & II (FRE 4331& 4332)
Selected Publications
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“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.
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“La querelle de la Créolisation: Creolization vs. Créolité in Glissant, Condé and the Creolists.” Nottingham French Studies 56.1 (2017): 67-81.
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“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.
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“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.
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“Immigration and Abandonment in Ryad Assani-Razaki’s Deux cercles and La main d’Iman.” South Central Review 33.3 (2016): 18-37.