{"id":77,"date":"2019-10-07T17:04:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T16:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T09:31:58","slug":"dr-michael-collins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/dr-michael-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Michael Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dr Michael Collins<\/strong> is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century American Literature and Culture, Department of English. After completing his Ph.D at The University of Nottingham with a thesis on the 19th Century U.S. Short Story and Theatre (monograph published 2016), Michael held a Leverhulme postdoc at Nottingham, working on the relationship between class politics and anthropology in 19th- and 20th- century US literature and culture. He then took a post as Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Kent, before coming to King\u2019s in Sept. 2018. Most recently, Michael has been working on a cultural history of intelligence testing in the U.S. \u201cProgressive Era\u201d as part of an AHRC Early Career project entitled, \u201cLiterary Culture, Meritocracy and the Assessment of Intelligence, 1880- 1920\u201d. He uses ritual and performance theory in the context of U.S. intellectual history, science, and literature to consider how texts \u201cperform\u201d and interact within a social world shaped by gesture and patterns of symbolic interaction along axes of race and class. Michael also researches and writes about radio and recorded sound, including podcasting, and supervises PhDs in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Theatre and Performance Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800 \u2013 1865<\/em> (University of Michigan, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Class, Culture, and the Making of U.S. Modernism<\/em> (under contract, EUP, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Articles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Illimitable Dominion of Charles Dickens: Transatlantic Print Culture and the Spring of 1842\u201d (Open Library of Humanities. Vol. 2 No. 1, March 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt Home with the Weird \u2013 Dark Eco-Discourse in <em>Tanis<\/em> and <em>Welcome to Night Vale<\/em>\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.revenantjournal.com\/contents\/at-home-with-the-weird-dark-eco-discourse-in-tanis-and-welcome-to-night-vale-danielle-barrios-oneill-falmouth-university-and-michael-collins-university-of-kent\/#sthash.lIb4qqSH.dpbs\">http:\/\/www.revenantjournal.com\/contents\/at-home-with-the-weird-dark-eco-discourse-in-tanis-and-welcome-to-night-vale-danielle-barrios-oneill-falmouth-university-and-michael-collins-university-of-kent\/#sthash.lIb4qqSH.dpbs<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Michael Collins is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century American Literature and Culture, Department of English. After completing his Ph.D at The University of Nottingham with a thesis on the 19th Century U.S. Short Story and Theatre (monograph published 2016), Michael held a Leverhulme postdoc at Nottingham, working on the relationship between class politics and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/dr-michael-collins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr Michael Collins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}