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Patrick Collier

Associate Professor
Assistant Chair of the Department
PhD, University of Delaware

Office: Robert Bell 388
Phone: (765) 285-8538
E-mail: pccollier@bsu.edu


Areas of Specialization:

British modernism, modern poetry, 19th and 20th-century British literature
 

Publications:

Book

  • Modernism on Fleet Street. Ashgate Press: 2006. New literary history on the relationship between literature and newspaper journalism in England and Ireland, 1914-45, with chapters on T. S. Eliot, Rebecca West, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Rose Macaulay.

Book Chapter

  • “Modernism vs. Journalism.” Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections. General Editor Bonnie Kime Scott. University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Essays

  • “Virginia Woolf in the Pay of Booksellers: Privacy, Publicity, Professionalism, Orlando.” Twentieth Century Literature 48. 4 (Winter 2002): 363-392.
  • "T. S. Eliot in the Journalistic Struggle." Challenging Modernism: New Readings in Literature and Culture, 1914-45. Ed. Stella Dean. London: Garland, 2002. 187-212
  • "'The Lawless by Force, the Peaceable by Kindness': Strategies of Social Control in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley and The Leeds Mercury." Victorian Periodicals Review 32.4 (Winter 1999): 279-298.
  • "Woolf, Privacy, and the Press." Virginia Woolf Turning the Centuries: Selected Papers from the Ninth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. New York: Pace University Press, 2000. 223-229.

Courses:

Graduate: Early 20th c. British Literature, Teaching in English Studies

Undergraduate: Introduction to English Studies, British Literature 2, Advanced Composition, World Literary Masterpieces, Senior Seminar, British Literature 1890-1930