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Collins J & Gilligan S (2025) Dressing, Undressing and Redressing: Costuming Identities in Fernando León de Aranoa's El buen patrón (2021). Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2025.2504258
In 2020 I joined the University of Stirling, and am a currently Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies (SPLAS), having previously worked at Northumbria University since 1995.
Currently, I am Programme Director for SPLAS and the BA Hons in European Languages and Society with International Management. I have taught across all levels of the UG SPLAS programme, running option modules in Queer Latin American Cinema, and Crime Fiction, Film and TV in the Spanish-speaking World. I also contribute to PG programmes in the Faculty (Creative Writing, Gender Studies, and Strategic Communication & Public Relations).
My research interests span Spanish and Latin American cultures, queer popular culture, and international crime fictions. Alongside my colleague in History, Dr Nikolaos Papadogiannis, I co-founded and co-lead the Queer Studies Reading Group, based in the Faculty of Art and Humanities.
My recent co-authored articles with Sarah Gilligan on fashioning Spanish masculinities have appeared in the Journal of Bodies, Sexualities and Masculinities (4.1), and Film, Fashion and Consumption (8.2). My previous publications include editing and contributing to numerous volumes, including: (Re)collecting the Past (2016), Lesbian Realities / Lesbian Fictions in Contemporary Spain (2011), and Crime Scene Spain (2009). I have recently guest edited a special issues of the Journal of European Popular Culture (Intellect), bringing together selected papers from the EUPOP2023 conference.
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Collins J & Gilligan S (2025) Dressing, Undressing and Redressing: Costuming Identities in Fernando León de Aranoa's El buen patrón (2021). Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/24741604.2025.2504258
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Leaving and returning: Tracing the double disengagement in the work of Dolores Redondo
Collins J (2025) Leaving and returning: Tracing the double disengagement in the work of Dolores Redondo. Journal of European Popular Culture. https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc_00073_1
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Growing Old (Dis)gracefully: Spanish Masculinities and Contemporary Star-Celebrity Culture
Collins J & Gilligan S (2023) Growing Old (Dis)gracefully: Spanish Masculinities and Contemporary Star-Celebrity Culture. Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities, 4 (1), pp. 73-99. https://doi.org/10.3167/jbsm.2023.040106
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Fashion-forward killer: Villanelle, costuming and queer style in Killing Eve
Gilligan S & Collins J (2021) Fashion-forward killer: Villanelle, costuming and queer style in Killing Eve. Film Fashion and Consumption, 10 (2), pp. 353-376. https://doi.org/10.1386/ffc_00030_1