Dr Cole Collins
Dr Cole Collins
- Lecturer
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6843-8380- Job Title
- Lecturer
- School or Academic Area
- School of Fine Art
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Fine Art
- C.Collins@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- Stow Building, 43 Shamrock Street, G4 9LD, UK.
Biography
Cole is a researcher, editor and writer.
He has worked in Scotland, Germany and the US teaching Histories of Art and Architecture, Art Theory and Cultural Studies. He received his PhD in 2018 from Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh which explored the representations of women in Kurt Schwitters' collages, with a particular focus on the women's movements in the first half of the 20th century.
He has published, lectured and organised events, symposia and conferences on collage, queer photography, Dada and feminism, as well as reviews of exhibitions and films; and has been invited to chair sessions for Edinburgh Art Festival and Edinburgh International Book Festival on queer art, literature, and film.
Cole is the President of the Kurt Schwitters Society and sits on the boards of the Alasdair Gray Archive and the Scottish Working Class Network, and past committee member of the Queer Minds Scotland Network.
Research Interests
Cole's research brings together queer-feminist thinking in/on collage and photography in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Cole is also interested in class in the arts, parity and community in practice.
Grants
2023-24 RKEI Fund, University of Edinburgh for Parity in Practice Research Network (£2,500)
2022-23 RKEI Fund, University of Edinburgh for Parity in Practice Research Network (£2,500)
2021 Conference Support Award, School of Engineering and Design, Technische Universität München (£1,500)
2019 Scouloudi Publication Award, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London (£850)
2018 Arp Fellowship, Stiftung Hans and Sophie Taeuber-Arp Stiftung e.V., Berlin. (£4,800)
2018 Devolved Researcher Fund, Collage Conference/Collage Research Network, Edinburgh College of Art. (£2500)
2015 Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Scholarship (£31,500)
PGR Supervision Interests
German modernism and contemporary art; queer and feminist art theory and history; class and classism in the arts; parity and community in art
Teaching
I teach in the FACS team across all years. I currently offer a third year FACS elective course on class in the arts, "A Touch of Social Class: Decoding Class in the Arts" which looks at how class manifests in language, literature, music, visual art, and the built environment.
Latest Additions
- Collins, Cole (2025) Domestic Divas: Tunten at Home. In: Oikography: Homemaking through Photography. Media/Art/Politics, 4 . Leiden University Press, Amsterdam, pp. 23-36. ISBN 9789087284695
- Collins, Cole, ed. (2022) Compressed Utterances: Collage in a Germanic Context after 1912. German Visual Culture, 12 . Peter Lang, Oxford. ISBN 9781789971729
Most Viewed Items
| # | Item title |  |  |
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| 1 | Domestic Divas: Tunten at Home | 62 | |
| 2 | Compressed Utterances: Collage in a Germanic Context after 1912 | 48 | 5 |