Curriculum Vitae
Nicholas J S Collins
BA (Hons), MA
Qualifications
PhD (ongoing) entitled ‘"Hic et ubique": Hamlet's space in twentieth-century Irish literature', University of Warwick, 2011-present, supervised by Professor Thomas Docherty.
MA (Distinction) in Post-1900 Literatures, Theories and Cultures, The University of Manchester, 2010-2011.
BA (Hons) (Upper Second) in English and Comparative Literature, University of Warwick, 2007-2010.
Awards and Scholarships
Warwick Humanities Research Centre Postgraduate Scholar, 2012-2013.
Full Block Grant Studentship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for master’s study, 2010-2011.
Publications
Book review of The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922 (Joseph Valente) in Irish Studies Review (20.3 (August 2012)).
Article entitled ‘“[T]heir bid to be remembered”: the host and the sovereign in Ciarán Carson’s Belfast’, under consideration at the Irish Studies Review.
Book review of ‘This Earthly Stage’: World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (ed. Hirsch and Wortham) for Shakespeare in Southern Africa journal (forthcoming, 24 (July 2012)).
Conference Papers
30 March 2012, '"This prison where I live": Ireland takes centre stage-space', Space on the Elizabethan Stage, 1576-1599, University of Leeds.
11 May 2011, '"N****r this! N****r that!": Judith Butler’s citational language in post-Civil Rights filmic representations of blackness', Postgraduate American Studies Conference: Race, Film and Cultural Politics, The University of Manchester.
University Teaching (University of Warwick)
EN122 – Modes of Reading, 2012-2013, seminars.
EN331 – Poetry in English since 1945, 2012-2013, seminar.
Other
Attended aesthetics reading group chaired by Professor Jeremy Tambling at The University of Manchester, 2010-2011.
Member of the British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) and the International Association of Studies in Irish Literature (IASIL).
Contact Me
Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
England
n dot j dot s dot collins at warwick dot ac dot uk