Michael Collins

Dr. Collins is the author of Understanding Etheridge Knight (University of South Carolina Press 2012), "The Traveling Queen: Selected Poems of Michael Collins" (Sheep Meadow Press 2013), as well as essays such as "'Ali Even Motivates the Dead': The Pursuit of Sovereignty in Norman Mailer's The Fight." PMLA (March 2013).

Current Work:

1) a book on Yusef Komunyakaa 2) a book on 'The Poetics of Ancestry' 3) a book of poems

Research Area(s):

• African-American Literature