Donald Blake Collins is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. He’s currently a PhD student and Teaching Associate in UCLA’s cinema and media studies graduate program.
Donald previously worked for Healthline as an Associate Editor, and as a staff writer for Psych Central covering issues related to LGBTQ health and identity, mood disorders, and more. He has also worked as a Teaching Assistant at USC, a bookseller, and a production intern at The Colbert Report and Ghost Robot (among other eclectic jobs).
He volunteers regularly for the American Cinematheque, one of LA’s largest nonprofit cultural institutions.
You can check out Donald’s articles, essays, and other publications here.
His instagram is @zineboyy, and you can buy his zines @blake.bigcartel.
CONTACT: donaldblakecollins@gmail.com, dbc@ucla.edu
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
PhD student, Cinema and Media Studies (entered fall 2022)
University of Southern California (LA, 2020)
MA in East Asian Studies, emphasis on film and media studies
Emerson College (Boston, 2015)
BA in Visual Media Arts/Media Production, Screenwriting
Research interests: transnational film studies, subtitles/dubbing and trends in Americans’ consumption of non-English language media, US production industry studies, horror genre trends