Michael Collins (29)

[excerpted from King's College London website]
Dr Collins is the author of Exoteric Modernisms: Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life (EUP 2023), The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800 - 1865 (Michigan 2016), and editor (with Gavin Jones) of The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story (CUP, 2023). He is the Chair of the British Association for American Studies and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is currently writing a book on American Literature and the Civil Service.

Dr Collins teaches a wide range of courses in the field of American literature and culture from the period of European settlement through to the 21st century. He is particularly engaged with of questions of class, race, ethnicity in U.S. history and is a specialist on the American short story. He has also written on theories of pedagogy and American music.