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Faculty: Loretta Collins
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Academic Degree:
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PhD, University of Iowa (1999)
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| Areas of Expertise: |
Caribbean Literature and Culture,
Black British Literature and Culture,
Cultural Studies,
Postcolonial Theory,
Creative Writing
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Contact Information |
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| Office location: |
English Department, Office #PED-12
Basement of Pedreira Building, College of Humanities |
| Office hours: |
Mondays through Thursdays (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM) |
| Phone: |
(787) 764-0000 ext. 7569
Messages: (787) 764-0000 ext. 2553 (at the English Department office) |
Email: |
collins.loretta@gmail.com |
Brief biography |
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Dr. Loretta Collins is originally from California, but she has lived in various locations relevant to Caribbean studies, including Jamaica, England, and Canada. She received a B. A. in English Literature and an M.A. in English-Creative Writing from California State University, Fresno, an M.F.A. in poetry writing from The University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, and a Ph.D. in English, with an emphasis on Anglophone Caribbean literature, from The University of Iowa.
She is Full Professor of Caribbean literature and creative writing at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus. Currently, she is also the Director of the English Department of the College of Humanities. In 2000, she founded the bilingual student literary and visual arts journal Tonguas, published annually by the English Department.
Her articles have been published in several essay collections and such journals as Small Axe, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, Image and Narrative, Jamaica Journal, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Popular Culture, and Literature and Medicine.
The recipient of numerous awards for poetry writing, including those offered by The Academy of American Poets and Pushcart Prize, she has published poetry in anthologies and literary journals, such as Poui, The Caribbean Writer, TriQuarterly, Black Warrior Review, Antioch Review, Quarterly West, and The Missouri Review. Most recently, she was one of eight poets to have poems in the anthology New Caribbean Poetry (2007), published by Carcanet Press in Britain.
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