Christopher W. Collins

Christopher W. Collins has been teaching in the American Language Program since 2013. His teaching responsibilities include the Intensive English Program (IEP) and academic writing courses tailored to meet the needs of both undergraduate and graduate students. As Associate Director for Curriculum, he leads the Curriculum Committee, overseeing textbook and play selection each semester, and managing the regular review of Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs), course syllabi, and curriculum guides.

Christopher is a frequent presenter at academic conferences and has presented locally (ALP Winter Conference; The New School MCES), regionally (NYS TESOL; Penn TESOL-EAST), nationally (TESOL; AAAL), and internationally (ANUPI [Mexico], CamTESOL [Cambodia], ERAW, IATEFL [UK], JALT [Japan], TESOL Spain); he has also co-chaired the annual ALP Winter Conference since 2014. His research interests include vocabulary acquisition, second-language reading skills, second-language writing skills, and the interconnected relationship between these three competencies. He is also interested in the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in curriculum development to support these areas of learning, exploring how technology can enhance language instruction and skill integration

In addition to conference presentations, Christopher has led teacher training workshops for university faculty internationally. In 2019, he conducted teacher training seminars on English Medium Instruction (EMI) for faculty at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and at Universidad Panamericana (UP) in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2025, he led a two-week training at Osh State University in Kyrgyzstan on integrating AI into language teaching and learning.

He completed an Ed.M. in Applied Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition track) at Teachers College, Columbia University and an M.A. in TESOL (Curriculum Development concentration) at The New School.