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Shalisa Collins is an associate professor of Spanish, specializing in 19th, 20th and 21st century Latin American literature and Latin American crime fiction. She enjoys teaching Spanish courses at all levels at St. Norbert College and leading global seminars. Collins received the college’s Leonard Ledvina Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014.
Collins’ most recent scholarship has focused on the treatment of space and place in Latin American crime fiction. She has published articles and book chapters on this topic.
Collins, Shalisa. "Subversion and Female Agency in the Crime Stories of Mariana Enríquez: The Disruption of Patriarchy in Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego" (article in progress)
Collins, Shalisa. Delito y huellas de la dictadura chilena en el espacio urbano de Santiago: Un estudio de las novelas neopoliciales de Ramón Díaz Eterovic. Madrid: Editorial Pliegos, 2018.
Collins, Shalisa, Renee Craig-Odders, Marcie Paul, eds. Violence and Victimhood in Hispanic Crime Fiction: Essays on Contemporary Works. Jefferson: McFarland Publishers, 2018.
Collins, Shalisa. “Who is the Victim Here? The City, the Corpse and Genre in the Crime Novels of Ramón Díaz Eterovic.” Book chapter in Violence and Victimhood in Hispanic Crime Fiction: Essays on Contemporary Works. Ed. Shalisa Collins, Renee Craig-Odders, Marcie Paul. Jefferson: McFarland Publishers, 2018.
Collins, Shalisa. “The neo-policial latinoamericano, the Question of Form and Matters of Space.” Capital Inscriptions: Essays on Hispanic Literature, Film & Urban Space in Honor of Malcolm Alan Compitello. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta—Hispanic Monographs, 2012. 137-57.
Collins, Shalisa. “Feminizing the Detective Novel: Marcela Serrano’s Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, the Neo-policial and the Creation of Feminine Spatial Poetics.” Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana 41.1 (2012): 73-84.
Collins, Shalisa. “Sobre cuartos cerrados y barrios populares: un estudio del espacio en el relato detectivesco desde el cuento clásico hasta el neo-policial hispanoamericano de Ramón Díaz Eterovic.” Cincinnati Romance Review 32 (Fall 2011): 1–12.
