Dr. Jack Collins is a professor of literature at City College of San Francisco. Dr. Collins received his B.A. from Columbia University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University.
During the 1970s, Collins played an active role in the explosion of gay politics and culture in San Francisco, serving on the steering committees and boards of numerous pioneering gay organizations and publications. He began teaching at City College of San Francisco in 1979, where he taught Gay Literature for many years. During the 1980's he worked with a number of dedicated City College of San Francisco faculty and administrators to expand services to the gay and lesbian communities. These efforts resulted in the organization of the College's Castro/Valencia Campus and, in 1989, the creation of the nation's first Gay and Lesbian Studies Department, for which he served as founding chair between 1989 and 1993 and again as chair between 2000 and 2003.
Collins also designed and implemented City College of San Francisco's first course on the Literature of AIDS and taught creative writing courses in short fiction and autobiography for a decade.
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