Jo Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6526-6198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating the Contact Zone: Postcolonial graduate teaching assistants’ experiences in a UK higher education institution
International Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) have often been characterised as lacking training, skills, English language proficiency and knowledge of the ‘host’ education system. In this study, a group of 18 GTAs from postcolonial countries were interviewed, to explore their perceptions of transitioning into UK higher education teaching at one institution. I use the Contact Zone as a framework to understand these GTAs’ experiences. The Conta…
Where’s the validation? Role of emotion work and validation for doctoral students
This article presents an original engagement with research into emotions in the PhD to ask ‘Where’s the validation?’ by using emotion work as a theoretical foundation. We develop a focus on emotional dissonance in the PhD journey to explore challenges around managing emotion. We explore how PhD students manage emotions around their projects and their PhD communities. Our focus in this paper is on the lived experiences of six PhD students, using r…
Systematic Visuo-Textual Analysis: A Framework for Analysing Visual and Textual Data
As qualitative research has evolved, researchers now often combine interviews with the production of photographs, artefacts, collages, maps or drawings and the like. However, in practice, the artefacts produced are used to eliciting experiences and stimulating conversations rather than as data, per se, which is often due to the lack of guidelines for how to deal with the artefacts as data in a systematic analytical process. In this article, we pr…
Edwidge Danticat: The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary
“Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses”, asserts Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat in The Art of Death (6). Nadège Clitandre’s full-length literary, geopolitical, and historical exploration of Danticat’s oeuvre starts with a key scene of that loss – “Haiti as Homeland” – and seeks to trace the revisionary potential of the dialectical encounter between Haiti and its diaspora through the trope of the echo c…
Bricolage and history: Edwidge Danticat's Diasporic Life Writing in After the Dance
Autobiographical Voices (1989), Lionnet's influential study of women's postcolonial life writing and Hasebe-Ludt et al's Life Writing (2009), employ notions of métissage which posit the politicised integration of written and oral sources to recover marginalised histories. Hasebe-Ludt et al go so far as to argue that the text ‘insinuate[s] itself into the very life of the reader’, envisaging life writing as redemptive and pedagogical. I argue that…
Novels of transformation and transplantation: The postcolonial Bildungsroman and Haitian American Youth in Danticat's Behind the Mountains and Breath, Eyes, Memory
The ethics and aesthetics of representing trauma: The textual politics of Edwidge Danticat'sThe Dew Breaker
The increasing prominence of trauma theory in literary analysis since the 1990s has led some critics to revise notions of the relationship between reader and text. This is not simply because trauma theory invites the reader's ethical engagement with the text; these theories also re‐evaluate the relationship of reader to text by conceptualizing the text as a "witness" to trauma. This essay explores the political ramifications of such a model with …
Shadow Selves: Jung, Africa and the Psyche
Swiss psychologist, and erstwhile discipline of Freud, Carl Gustav Jung was excommunicated from the psychoanalytic movement in 1913 for delving into the occult and for challenging Freud's sexually based notion of the libido. He went on to develop his own psychological method – analytical psychology – in which ‘Africa’ was decisive. For Jung, Africa and its inhabitants represented the ‘primitive’, the unconscious, ‘the other’, which then enabled h…
‘Neurotic Men’ and a Spectral Woman: Freud, Jung and Sabina Spielrein
Freud’s investigations into the etymology of the uncanny in his 1919 essay lead him to consider how das Unheimliche (the unhomely) is inextricable from its antonym heimlich (the homely). Freud surmises that ‘what is Heimlich ... comes to be unheimlich ’, 3 as the two terms coincide around the sense that what is familiar, cordial, and comforting may transpire to be equivocal, estranged, and treacherous. Freud here identifies the ambiguity inherent…
Uncanny Modernity
This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern w
Document: ‘On the Psychology of the Uncanny’ (1906): Ernst Jentsch
[In his famous essay on the uncanny, first published in 1919, 2 Sigmund Freud begins by complaining that aesthetics has hitherto not paid much attention to the aberrant and the repulsive. This complaint is also an expression of anticipatory pleasure on the part of Freud the writer, in so far as the uncanny in particular has no ‘literature’ with which to contend — but he has to admit that there is one exception, namely the essay translated below. …
Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties
Evaluation of social therapy in chronic alcoholism
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE(3) the absence of a clear effect of birthweight on the mental performance.Two alternative hypotheses are: (1) that survivors of famine-affected cohorts do not represent the total born, so that those who died in early life might have been ad- versely affected.In other words, there was an all-or-none effect: the exposed fetus either died from the insult or survived unimpaired; (2) that postnatal learning was able to comp…
Systematic Visuo-Textual Analysis: A Framework for Analysing Visual and Textual Data
As qualitative research has evolved, researchers now often combine interviews with the production of photographs, artefacts, collages, maps or drawings and the like. However, in practice, the artefacts produced are used to eliciting experiences and stimulating conversations rather than as data, per se, which is often due to the lack of guidelines for how to deal with the artefacts as data in a systematic analytical process. In this article, we pr…
The ethics and aesthetics of representing trauma: The textual politics of Edwidge Danticat'sThe Dew Breaker
The increasing prominence of trauma theory in literary analysis since the 1990s has led some critics to revise notions of the relationship between reader and text. This is not simply because trauma theory invites the reader's ethical engagement with the text; these theories also re‐evaluate the relationship of reader to text by conceptualizing the text as a "witness" to trauma. This essay explores the political ramifications of such a model with …
Shadow Selves: Jung, Africa and the Psyche
Swiss psychologist, and erstwhile discipline of Freud, Carl Gustav Jung was excommunicated from the psychoanalytic movement in 1913 for delving into the occult and for challenging Freud's sexually based notion of the libido. He went on to develop his own psychological method – analytical psychology – in which ‘Africa’ was decisive. For Jung, Africa and its inhabitants represented the ‘primitive’, the unconscious, ‘the other’, which then enabled h…
Evaluation of social therapy in chronic alcoholism
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE(3) the absence of a clear effect of birthweight on the mental performance.Two alternative hypotheses are: (1) that survivors of famine-affected cohorts do not represent the total born, so that those who died in early life might have been ad- versely affected.In other words, there was an all-or-none effect: the exposed fetus either died from the insult or survived unimpaired; (2) that postnatal learning was able to comp…
‘Neurotic Men’ and a Spectral Woman: Freud, Jung and Sabina Spielrein
Freud’s investigations into the etymology of the uncanny in his 1919 essay lead him to consider how das Unheimliche (the unhomely) is inextricable from its antonym heimlich (the homely). Freud surmises that ‘what is Heimlich ... comes to be unheimlich ’, 3 as the two terms coincide around the sense that what is familiar, cordial, and comforting may transpire to be equivocal, estranged, and treacherous. Freud here identifies the ambiguity inherent…
Uncanny Modernity
This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern w
Document: ‘On the Psychology of the Uncanny’ (1906): Ernst Jentsch
[In his famous essay on the uncanny, first published in 1919, 2 Sigmund Freud begins by complaining that aesthetics has hitherto not paid much attention to the aberrant and the repulsive. This complaint is also an expression of anticipatory pleasure on the part of Freud the writer, in so far as the uncanny in particular has no ‘literature’ with which to contend — but he has to admit that there is one exception, namely the essay translated below. …
Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties
Shadow Selves: Jung, Africa and the Psyche
Swiss psychologist, and erstwhile discipline of Freud, Carl Gustav Jung was excommunicated from the psychoanalytic movement in 1913 for delving into the occult and for challenging Freud's sexually based notion of the libido. He went on to develop his own psychological method – analytical psychology – in which ‘Africa’ was decisive. For Jung, Africa and its inhabitants represented the ‘primitive’, the unconscious, ‘the other’, which then enabled h…
The ethics and aesthetics of representing trauma: The textual politics of Edwidge Danticat'sThe Dew Breaker
The increasing prominence of trauma theory in literary analysis since the 1990s has led some critics to revise notions of the relationship between reader and text. This is not simply because trauma theory invites the reader's ethical engagement with the text; these theories also re‐evaluate the relationship of reader to text by conceptualizing the text as a "witness" to trauma. This essay explores the political ramifications of such a model with …
Novels of transformation and transplantation: The postcolonial Bildungsroman and Haitian American Youth in Danticat's Behind the Mountains and Breath, Eyes, Memory
Bricolage and history: Edwidge Danticat's Diasporic Life Writing in After the Dance
Autobiographical Voices (1989), Lionnet's influential study of women's postcolonial life writing and Hasebe-Ludt et al's Life Writing (2009), employ notions of métissage which posit the politicised integration of written and oral sources to recover marginalised histories. Hasebe-Ludt et al go so far as to argue that the text ‘insinuate[s] itself into the very life of the reader’, envisaging life writing as redemptive and pedagogical. I argue that…
Edwidge Danticat: The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary
“Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses”, asserts Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat in The Art of Death (6). Nadège Clitandre’s full-length literary, geopolitical, and historical exploration of Danticat’s oeuvre starts with a key scene of that loss – “Haiti as Homeland” – and seeks to trace the revisionary potential of the dialectical encounter between Haiti and its diaspora through the trope of the echo c…
Navigating the Contact Zone: Postcolonial graduate teaching assistants’ experiences in a UK higher education institution
International Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) have often been characterised as lacking training, skills, English language proficiency and knowledge of the ‘host’ education system. In this study, a group of 18 GTAs from postcolonial countries were interviewed, to explore their perceptions of transitioning into UK higher education teaching at one institution. I use the Contact Zone as a framework to understand these GTAs’ experiences. The Conta…
Where’s the validation? Role of emotion work and validation for doctoral students
This article presents an original engagement with research into emotions in the PhD to ask ‘Where’s the validation?’ by using emotion work as a theoretical foundation. We develop a focus on emotional dissonance in the PhD journey to explore challenges around managing emotion. We explore how PhD students manage emotions around their projects and their PhD communities. Our focus in this paper is on the lived experiences of six PhD students, using r…
Systematic Visuo-Textual Analysis: A Framework for Analysing Visual and Textual Data
As qualitative research has evolved, researchers now often combine interviews with the production of photographs, artefacts, collages, maps or drawings and the like. However, in practice, the artefacts produced are used to eliciting experiences and stimulating conversations rather than as data, per se, which is often due to the lack of guidelines for how to deal with the artefacts as data in a systematic analytical process. In this article, we pr…
Psychology (9 works) · Art (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Uncanny (4 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)