Marsha S. Collins

Marsha S. Collins is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Department Chair at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in Early Modern European literature, particularly Spanish literature within its broader European context. Her research focuses on romance forms, literature-visual arts intersections, early modern lyric poetry, and court culture.

Education includes a PhD in Romance Languages (Spanish) from Princeton University, an MA in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an AB in Comparative Literature from Smith College.

Her research interests span Comparative Literature, Early Modern Studies, Genre Theory, Poetry and Poetics, and Visual Culture. She is currently writing a book titled 'Novel Friendships: Amity and Community in Cervantes’s Don Quijote.'

Awarded the John L. Sanders Teaching Award (2000) and prestigious fellowships, her work bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary approaches. She teaches courses like 'Global Cervantes' and 'Literature of Pilgrimage.'