Nicholas Collins

BA (Hons), MA

Qualifications

PhD (2011-present) entitled ‘Early modern sovereignty in modern Irish literature’, University of Warwick, 2011-present, supervised by Professor Thomas Docherty, Professor Carol Rutter and Dr Liz Barry.

MA (Distinction) in Post-1900 Literatures, Theories and Cultures, University of Manchester, 2010-2011.

BA (Hons) (Upper Second) in English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, 2007-2010.

Publications

Articles and essays

‘“[R]emember me”: Bloom, Poetry and the Successful Failure of Memory in Joyce’s “Hades”’ (under review: Essays in Criticism).

‘“This prison where I live”: Ireland takes Centre Stage’ (under review: Cahiers Elisabéthains).

‘“[L]ike a shoal of fish moving within a net”: King Lear and McGahern’s Family in Amongst Women’, in John McGahern: Critical Essays, ed. by Mullen, Bargroff & Mullen (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014).

Reviews

The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare’s Wake: Appropriation and Cultural Politics, 1867-1922 (Adam Putz) in Irish University Review (forthcoming, 2014).

W. B. Yeats’s A Vision: Explications and Contexts(ed. by Mann, Gibson and Nally) in Irish Studies Review, 21.4 (2013), 488-90 <doi: 10.1080/09670882.2013.849866>.

The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922(Joseph Valente) in Irish Studies Review, 20.3 (August 2012), 338-40 <doi: 10.1080/09670882.2012.698874>.

‘This Earthly Stage’: World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (ed. by Hirsch and Wortham) in Shakespeare in Southern Africa,24 (July 2012), 71-4 <doi: 10.4314/sisa.v24i1.9>.

Awards

Scholarship for the Dublin James Joyce Summer School, run by University College, Dublin and Boston College, Dublin, 2013, worth c. €1000.

Postgraduate Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence – nominated, 2013.

STARS of Warwick Awards – Best Academic for Undergraduates – final shortlist, 2013.

University of Warwick Humanities Research Centre (HRC), Postgraduate Scholar 2012-2013 (interdisciplinary research project), worth £3000.

Thomas Arno fund of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, book grant and research travel grant (awarded separately), 2011-2013, worth £800.

Full Block Grant Studentship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for master’s study, 2010-2011, worth c. £13,000.

Conference papers

‘“strange pain, strange sin”: the body and its economy in Samuel Beckett, Edna O’Brien and William Shakespeare’, IASIL 2014 Annual Conference, Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3, 14-18 July 2014.

‘Shakespeare, Heaney, and rupture’, British Shakespeare Association Annual Conference, University of Stirling, 3-6 July 2014.

‘“[S]omeone wholly other”: Banville’s double-inheritance in Ghosts, from Hamlet and Joyce’s Bloom’, Banville and His Precursors, University of York, 9-10 November 2013.

‘The Irish for “Let them hang”: from Carson’s Belfast to Coriolanus’s Rome’, Urban Cultures, IASIL Annual Conference, Queen’s University, Belfast, 22-26 July 2013.

‘“[L]ike a shoal of fish moving within a net”: endo- and exogeny, or father- and brotherhood in the family Amongst Women’, A Way of Seeing: 50 Years of McGahern in Print, Queen's University, Belfast, 15-16 March 2013.

‘“[R]emember me”: Leopold Bloom's spectral and Hamletic hangover in Joyce's “Hades”’, Arts Faculty Seminar Series, University of Warwick, 21 November 2012.

30 March 2012, ‘“This prison where I live”: Ireland takes centre stage-space’, Space on the Elizabethan Stage, University of Leeds, 21 November 2012.

‘“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, University of Manchester, 11 May 2011.

University teaching (University of Warwick)

EN122 – Modes of Reading, 2012-2014, seminars.

EN331 – Poetry in English since 1945, 2012-14, seminars (honours level).

EN351 – Modern and Contemporary Irish and Scottish Literature, 2012-2013, seminar (honours level).

Currently undertaking Postgraduate Teaching Award: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2013-2014.

Memberships

British Association for Irish Studies

International Association for Studies in Irish Literature

European Shakespeare Research Association

British Shakespeare Research Association

Council for the Defence of the British Universities

Notable achievements

Co-organiser with fellow Postgraduate Scholars of the HRC sponsored one-day, interdisciplinary conference: ‘Myth-making: from Medusa to Madonna’, 18 June 2013, University of Warwick.

Participant in Finnegans Wake reading group at School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2012-present.

Comment writer for studentjournals.co.uk(2013).

Founder and Director of successful proofreading and copy-editing business Consult Write (www.consult-write.com; 2011-present).

Secondary school English teacher (Hampton School), November 2013.

Contributor to Massolit (http://massolit.herokuap.com), an online repository of humanities lectures.

Chair of the Postgraduate Student-Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC), Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, 2011-2012. Member of Committee from 2012-2013.

Contributor to the Young Fabians Schools’ Scheme on politics, giving presentations in schools.

Contact Me

Office hour:
Thursday, 11 am-12 noon
H520

n dot j dot s dot collins at warwick dot ac dot uk

Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
England