Caroline Collins
Thesis title: To Make Gods of Men, The Emancipator of Worlds: The Devil, the Sadean Libertine, and Russian Revolutionary Terrorism in The Brothers Karamazov (1879–80)
PhD supervisors:
Qualifications
BA (magna cum laude), Southwestern University (USA), Religion
MTS (summa cum laude), Southern Methodist University (USA), Biblical Studies Concentration
Responsibilities & affiliations
Research Collaborator: North American Research Collective - Religious Trauma (NARC-RT)
Undergraduate teaching
Tutor
The God(s) of the Philosophers: Proposals and Problems (Semester 2, 2024-2025)
Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Semester 1, 2024-2025)
Current research interests
Religion and Literature; Religion and Politics; The Devil in Poetry, Plays, and Prose; Gothic Literature; Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Russian Literature; Nineteenth Century Russian Revolutionary Movement; Russian Revolutionary Terrorism.Past research interests
Collins has undertaken many projects concerning Religion and Literature throughout the completion of her Bachelor of Arts in Religion (2019), and her Master’s of Theological Studies (2022): previous projects have incorporated the works of, to name a few, Dante, James Weldon Johnson, Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean-Louis Chrétien.Conference details
American Academy of Religion - Online June Annual Meeting (2025, accepted)
SGSAH Scottish Universities Theology and Religious Studies Postgraduate Research Day Conference (2024)
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Conference (2023)
Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society Regional Meeting (2022)
Participant
“‘No More God(s), Frenchmen’: Reading the Devil and the Church-State in The Marquis de Sade’s Libertine Novels from the Bastille to the Reign of Terror.” Stories of Origin: A Workshop on Literature and Religion. Jointly organized by the ‘Literature and Religion’ research group, University of Bergen, Norway, and the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature (October 2024).
“The Universal Bow: Philosophies of Love and Loss in Dostoevsky’s ‘The Grand Inquisitor.’” Literature and Religion Nugget Seminar. Jointly organized by the ‘Literature and Religion’ research group, University of Bergen, Norway, and the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature (November 2023).
Papers delivered
The Guise of ‘the Gentleman’: Reading the Devil and the Anticipation of Alexander II’s Assassination in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (1879–80) (accepted).
“The Metamorphosis: The Devil Conceived in Perceptions of the Self and the Other in The Brothers Karamazov.”
“Circuits of the Past: Reading the Resurrection Appearances in John 20 through Phenomenological Literature.”
“Foundations of Sapphire: Galatians 4:27 and Obstetrical Literature in the Hebrew Bible.”
“The Sound Mind.” Liturgy for The Unmooring Issue 2.2, Winter 2024. https://issuu.com/theunmooring/docs/issue_2.2_final
“The Art of Christian War: Revisiting Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Jesus Camp (2006).” Film Review for Transpositions, Fall 2022. https://www.transpositions.co.uk/the-art-of-christian-war-revisiting-heidi-ewing-and-rachel-gradys-jesus-camp/
“Return to Mine: A Call and Response Liturgy.” Liturgy for The Unmooring Issue 04, Summer 2022. https://www.theunmooring.org/issue-4
“Symbolism in the Gospel of John: Jesus as Birther and Life Giver.” Liturgy for The Unmooring Issue 02, Spring 2021. https://www.theunmooring.org/issue-2
The Charley T. and Jesse James Bible Award (Southern Methodist University, 2022)
David Knox Porter Award (Southwestern University, 2020)