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Holly Collins
Holly Collins is associate professor of French at Baylor University. Her main areas of research are nineteenth-century French literature, with a focus on Emile Zola and naturalism, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century Francophone literatures, particularly migrant narratives. Selected publications include ‘From trauma to drama in Groupov’s Rwanda 94: Creating a polymorphous space for witnessing (to) the Rwandan genocide’ in the International Journal of Francophone Studies (2017); ‘La querelle de la Créolisation: Creolization vs. Créolité in Glissant, Condé and the Creolists’ in Nottingham French Studies (2017); ‘Relations of Americanness, hybridity and the trans(multi)cultural: Studying Francophone literatures in the U.S.’ in Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy (Fall 2016); and ‘Immigration and abandonment in Ryad Assani-Razaki’s Deux cercles and La main d’Iman’ in South Central Review (2016), which won the Kirby Prize for the best essay of 2016. She has also published in Romance Notes, Women in French Studies, Dalhousie French Studies and has a chapter in Critical Insights: Contemporary Canadian Fiction (Salem Press, 2014) as well as a recent article in Australasian Canadian Studies.
Contact: Baylor University, One Bear Place #97391, Waco, TX 76798, USA.