Nicholas J S Collins -- Curriculum Vitae
Nicholas J S Collins
BA (Hons), MA
Qualifications
MPhil/PhD (ongoing) in ‘"Hic et ubique. Then we'll shift this ground: spatial dynamics in Hamlet; Hamlet in modern Irish fiction’, 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
Full Block Grant Studentship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for master’s study, 2010-2011.
Publications
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, 2012).
Book review of The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922 (Joseph Valente) for Irish Studies Review (forthcoming).
Conference Papers
28 April 2011, '"Waste and wild": Spenser's Ireland, Milton's hell, 6th Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Conference: Marginal Cartographies: Researching Beyond Borders, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.
24-25 May 2011, '"[W]ood within this wood": conjoining Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Midsummer', Spaces of Dislocation, The College of Arts, University of Glasgow.
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.
Other
Organiser of Hamlet reading group in University of Warwick’s Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies.
Attended aesthetics reading group chaired by Professor Jeremy Tambling at The University of Manchester, 2010-2011.
Member of the British Association for Irish Studies.