Department of English Language and Literature
Directory
Alyssa Collins
Title: | Assistant Professor |
Department: | English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | ac95@mailbox.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-576-5886 |
Office: | HUO 509 |
Resources: |
English Language and Literature |

Education
PhD, University of Virginia, 2019
BA, Emory University, 2011
Areas of Specialization
African American Literature
Technology / Embodiment
Race / Gender / Sexuality
Digital Humanities and Digital Methods
Recent Courses
ENGL 287 American Literature
ENGL/AFAM 428B African American Literature after 1903
Publications
• “Imagining Black Technological Practices in Contemporary America.” Black Perspectives:
African American Intellectual History Society Blog, 13 Sep. 2017, http://www.aaihs.org/imagining-black-technological-practices-in-contemporary-america/.
• “When It Ain’t Broke: Representations of Black Women in Comics.” Black Perspectives:
African American Intellectual History Society Blog, 9 Jan 2017, http://www.aaihs.org/when-it-aint-broke-black-female-representation-in-comics/.
• “The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg.” Black Perspectives:
African American Intellectual History Society Blog, 16 Oct. 2017, http://www.aaihs.org/the-life- of-pauli-murray-an-interview-with-rosalind-rosenberg/.
• “DASH-Amerikan: Keeping Up with the Social Media Ecologies of the Kardashians,”
with Alicia Cathicia, Jordan Buysse, Justin Greenlee, Sarah McEleney, and Joseph Thompson,
Toward a Critically Engaged Digital Practice: American Studies and the Digital Humanities,
special issue of American Quarterly, edited by Edited by Lauren Tilton, Amy Earhart,
Matt Delmont, Susan Garfinkel, Jesse P. Karlsberg, and Angel David Nieves vol. 70,
no.3 (2018), pp. 609-612.