Patrick Collier
Biography
Patrick Collier, program committee chair for "Mediamorphosis," is associate professor of English at Ball State University, and author of Modernism on Fleet Street (Ashgate, 2006), a literary history of how modernist writing took shape in relation to historical debates about the state and future of journalism. With Ann Ardis, he edited the essay collection Transatlantic Print Culture 1880-1940: Emerging Media, Emerging Modernisms (Palgrave 2008), and he has published a number of articles on the relations between literature and journalism. As a secondary specialty, he studies and teaches film and is particularly interested in connections between the ideological force of Hollywood films and the structural ways in which they tell their stories.