Ph.D. 1964 (comparative literature), Columbia; M.A. 1959 (Latin), California (Berkeley); B.A. 1958 (English), St. Anselm's College.
Christopher Collins
Professor of English Emeritus
Psychology of literature and rhetoric; poetry and poetics; classics
Common Room, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1971; Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, University of California, 1958.
(Selected)
Neopoetics: The Evolution of the Literate Imagination. Columbia University Press, 2016.
Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination. Columbia University Press, 2013.
Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2007.
Authority Figures: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 1996.
Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1991.
The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1991.
Neopoetics: The Evolution of the Literate Imagination. Columbia University Press, 2016.
Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination. Columbia University Press, 2013.
Homeland Mythology: Biblical Narratives in American Culture . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2007.
Authority Figures: Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 1996.
Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1991.
The Poetics of the Mind's Eye: Literature and the Psychology of Imagination. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1991.