Collins Lecture—Fran Dolan

Collins Lecture presents Frances Dolan, Distinguished Professor English, University of California Davis. “History, Race, Storytelling: The Case of Virginia Dare Wine.”

The English Department's annual Dan S. Collins Lecture is held at the Center each year and is delivered by a leading scholar in the field of early modern literature. The lecture is named for Dan S. Collins, a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1957 until his retirement in 1987. Collins co-founded English Literary Renaissance in 1971, a journal devoted to current criticism and scholarship of Tudor and early Stuart English literature, 1485-1665.