About holly_collins

Holly Collins is an Associate Professor of French at Baylor University. Her main areas of research are nineteenth-century French literature, especially Zola, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century Francophone literatures, particularly migrant narratives. Selected publications include: “Monumental Constructions: Statues, Identity, and Gabrielle Roy’s ‘L’arbre.’” in Quebec Studies 2021, “Why French Colonial Anti-Semitism Matters Here and Now” in the International Journal of Literary Humanities in 2022, and “Reconstructed and Neo-Slave Narratives in French: Filling the Gap through Literature and Archives” in the International Journal of Francophone Studies 2021. She has also published “From Trauma to Drama in Groupov’s Rwanda 94: Creating a Polymorphous Space for Witnessing (to) the Rwandan Genocide” (2017) in IJFS; “La querelle de la Créolisation: Creolization vs. Créolité in Glissant, Condé and the Creolists” (2017) in Nottingham French Studies; and she won the Kirby Prize for the best essay of 2016 for her article “Immigration and Abandonment in Ryad Assani-Razaki’s Deux cercles and La main d’Iman” in the South Central Review. Other articles appear in Romance Notes, Women in French Studies, Dalhousie French Studies, Australasian Canadian Studies, Reader and a chapter in Critical Insights: Contemporary Canadian Fiction.