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Corrine Collins

Assistant Professor of English
Corrine Collins
Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email corrinec@usc.edu

Research & Practice Areas

Contemporary African Diasporic Literature and Culture; Black British Literature; Caribbean Literature; Popular Culture; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Food Studies

Biography

Corrine Collins’ research focuses on contemporary African diaspora literature and culture. Her articles and essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, ASAP/J, Public Books, Air/Light Magazine, and Mixed-Race Superheroes (Rutgers UP, 2021). She teaches classes on Black British literature, Caribbean literature, multiraciality, and African Diaspora foodways.

Her book-in-progress Injurious Love: Interracial Intimacy and the Post-Racial Future (working title) examines the racialization of familial and social love in interracial families and friendships. By reading...

Education

  • Ph.D. English, Northwestern University, 2019

  • Research Specialties

    Contemporary African Diasporic Literature and Culture; Black British Literature; Caribbean Literature; Popular Culture; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Food Studies

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