Dr Ashok Collins
PhD, BA Hons (University of Western Australia)
Senior Lecturer in French Studies
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Philosophy 2203
- Philosophy Of Religion 220315
- Cultural Studies 2002
- French Language 200306
- Literature In French 200511
- Comparative Literature Studies 200524
- History Of Ideas 220209
- Literary Theory 200525
Research interests
twentieth-century French literature; continental philosophy (deconstruction and phenomenology); philosophy of religion; philosophy of education; teaching and learning
Biography
Before taking up his current position at the ANU, Ash taught French and European Studies at the University of Western Australia where he also completed his PhD (deconstruction and twentieth-century French literature).
Researcher's projects
My main research project currently consists of a comparative study of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy.
Current student projects
'The Sonic Flesh: A Radical Phenomenology of Sound' (PhD, Associate Supervisor).
Past student projects
'Whose Alterity Anyway? Reviving a Levinasian Ethic in Butler's Political World' (co-supervisor, joint Honours in Language Studies & Philosophy, 2015).
PhB Advanced Studies Course project on Roland Barthes, 2015.
'"Pardon my Québécois!" The use of religious profanities by Québécois youth and its role in Québécois society' (co-supervisor, Honours in Language Studies (French), 2016).
PhB Advanced Studies Course project on Albert Camus, 2016.
'Interior Freedom in the French-language Poetry Written in the Concentration Camps (1943-45)' (PhD, Chair of Panel, 2017).
Publications
- Collins, A & Clemens, M 2022, 'From play to self-cultivation: Contesting the opposition between Bildung and Ausbildung in language education', Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 1910-1921. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1972413
- Collins, A 2021, 'For the love of this world: Michel Henry and JeanLuc Nancy on theology and affectivity', International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, vol. 82, no. 1, pp. 77-94 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21692327.2021.1881916)
- Collins, A 2021, 'The Roman-Fleuve', in Adam Watt (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Novel in French, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 439-455 (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-the-novel-in-french/5BB496D480E15DFB7BCE3A4465049E36)
- Collins, A 2020, 'Beyond secularism and religion: Jean-Luc Nancy on global monotheism', Journal of European Studies, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 343-359. (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0047244120969440?af=R&ai=1gvoi&mi=3ricys)
- Barnes, L, Collins, A & King, G 2019, 'Introduction: Truth and Representation in French and Francophone Studies', Australian Journal of French Studies, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 117-124.
- Collins, A 2019, 'Testifying to the Truth: Paul Ricœur and Jean-Luc Nancy on the Theological Turn', Australian Journal of French Studies, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 170-183. (https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/ajfs.2019.13?mobileUi=0&)
- Collins, A 2019, 'The Virtue of Joy: Spinoza in Jean-Luc Nancy's Deconstruction of Christianity', Research in Phenomenology, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 143-162. (https://brill.com/view/journals/rip/49/2/article-p143_1.xml)
- Collins, A 2017, 'The forgotten Spinozist: Romain Rolland, Gilles Deleuze, and the figure of Christ', French Cultural Studies, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 329-343 (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0957155817721680)
- Collins, A 2016, 'Romain Rolland (1866-1944)' in Sylvie Parizet (ed.), La Bible dans les littératures du monde. Paris: Les Editions Du Cerf, pp. 1880-1882. (https://www.editionsducerf.fr/librairie/livre/17757/la-bible-dans-les-litteratures-du-monde-coffret)
- Collins, A 2016, 'Being exposed to love: the death of God in Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Luc Nancy', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, December 2016, Volume 80, Issue 3, pp. 297–319. DOI 10.1007/s11153-015-9552-z (rdcu.be/m10X)
- Collins, A 2015, 'Towards a Saturated Faith: Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Luc Nancy on the Possibility of Belief after Deconstruction', Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, Volume 54, Issue 3, pp. 321-341. DOI:10.1007/s11841-015-0473-1 (rdcu.be/m10Y)
- Collins, A 2015, 'The Enunciation of the Subject: Sharing Jean-Luc Nancy's Singular Plural in the Classroom', Educational Philosophy and Theory. Volume 47, Issue 8, pp. 774-785. DOI:10.1080/00131857.2014.901162
- Collins, A 2014, 'Trinity and Atheology The Listening Self in Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe', French Forum, vol. 39, no. 2-3, pp. 113-127.
- Collins, A & Andre, B 2014, 'The pedagogy of humour: Inhabiting the Third Space in a tertiary French class', Languages & Cultures Network for Australian Universities Colloquium (LCNAU 2013) - The Second National LCNAU Colloquium, ed. C Travis, J Hajek, C Nettelbeck, E Beckmann and A Lloyd-Smith, LCNAU, Australia, pp. 265-275.
- Beatty, S, Collins, A & Buckingham, M 2014, 'Embedding academic socialisation within a language support program: An Australian case study', International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 9-18.
- Collins, A 2011, 'The Religious Attitude and Music in Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe: A Tekhne of Body', Australian Journal of French Studies, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 188-200.
- Collins, A 2010, 'Jean-Christophe: un héros pacifiste? (Jean- Christophe: a Pacifist Hero?)', in Bernard Duchatelet (ed.), Romain Rolland, une oeuvre de paix, Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, France, pp. 53-60.
- Collins, A 2007, 'L'Esthetique religieuse: l'art et la pensée religieuse dans les romans de Romain Rolland (The Religious Aesthetic: Art and Religious Thought in the Novels of Romain Rolland)', Cahiers de Brèves, vol. 20.
