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

• “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.