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Mar 11, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
Arcadia faculty and staff attended and presented at the 39th Annual Conference on The First- Year Experience which was held in Washington, D.C. from Feb 21 to 24. Dr. Nancy Rosoff, dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Rachel Collins, adjunct professor of English and director of...
Oct 16, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
At this year’s Common Read on Oct. 14, 19-year-old David Hogg, March for Our Lives co-founder, gun control advocate, and survivor of last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., urged students to be civically engaged this election season and vote for...
Mar 29, 2017 • Caitlin Burns
Global Pathways Institute (GPI) students Pankti Antani and Shubhechha Dhar from Mumbai, India participated in a “reverse” Preview experience in Glenside from March 19 to 25. In a unique transcontinental course, both Glenside first-year students and Mumbai students participate in “Food Culture...
Dr. Collins specializes in late nineteenth-century American fiction and the geohumanities. Her research investigates how geographic models developed to explain the material world can also be productively used in exploring literary worlds. More broadly, her research and teaching interests include American realism and naturalism, proletarian literature, class and labor studies, landscape studies, and theories of space and place.
Dr. Collins also serves as Director of First-Year Writing and the Director of the First-Year Academic Experience.
Syracuse University
PhD, Major in English
University of Utah
MA, Major in English
University of Utah
BA, Major in English