Email
orobin@essex.ac.ukTelephone
+44 (0) 1206 872617
Location
5NW.4.11, Colchester Campus
Biography
Owen Robinson is Senior Lecturer in U.S. Literature at the University of Essex. He is the author of Creating Yoknapatawpha: Readers and Writers in Faulkner’s Fiction (Routledge, 2006), as well as several journal articles and book chapters on Faulkner. With Richard Gray, he has co-edited A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South (Blackwell, 2004). He is currently working on writing centred on New Orleans, as part of the AHRC-funded project American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography, and co-edited Surveying the American Tropics: A Literary Geography from New York to Rio (Liverpool University Press, 2013), as well as further articles and book chapters on New Orleans writing including contributions to The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South (ed. Hobson and Ladd, OUP 2016) and Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture: The Americas (ed. Edwards and Vasconcelos, Routledge, 2016). Owen teaches a variety of modules at undergraduate and MA levels, including survey modules on U.S. literature and more specialised modules on Southern literature and culture, post-war U.S. fiction, African American literature, and writing centred on New Orleans. Owen would welcome research proposals on any aspect of U.S. literature, but particularly Southern writing, William Faulkner, New Orleans, African American writing, and post-war U.S. fiction; he is also interested in literary geography, and Bakhtinian and reader-response theory.
Qualifications
BA Essex
PhD Essex
Research interests
Literature and culture of the US South
William Faulkner
New Orleans
Post-war US fiction
African-American literature
Theory Bakhtin, reader-response, literary geography
Current teaching responsibilities
Origins and Transformations in Literature and Drama (LT111)
I, too, sing America: Identity, Diversity, and Voice in United States Literature (LT203)
Post-War(s) United States Fiction (LT320)
Independent Literature Project (LT831)
�Tell About the South�: Literary Identities and Dialogues in a U.S. Region (LT936)
African American Literature (LT937)
Independent Creative Writing Project (LT832)
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 11/10/2024
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 13/11/2023
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 28/10/2022
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 17/2/2021
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 1/12/2020
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Master of Arts (by Dissertation)
Awarded date: 31/3/2020
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 29/5/2019
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Master of Arts (by Dissertation)
Awarded date: 21/6/2017
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 18/5/2016
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 30/10/2015
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 15/6/2015
Degree subject: Literature
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 31/1/2012
Journal articles (14)
Robinson, O., (2018). FROM DEEP SOUTH TO FREEDOM HIGHWAY Some Thoughts on Teaching Southern Race in the United Kingdom. SOUTH-A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL. 50 (2), 187-194
Robinson, O., (2011). Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature. Journal of American History. 98 (3), 856-857
Robinson, O., (2011). Magic Portraits Drawn by the Sun: New Orleans and the sense(s) of death in Josh Russell’s Yellow Jack. Transatlantica : Revue d'�tudes Am�ricaines
Robinson, O., (2007). Truly strange New Orleans: The unstable city in George Washington Cable's Strange True Stories of Louisiana. European Journal of American Culture. 26 (2), 97-108
Borsley, RD., Roberts, I., Sadler, L. and Willis, D., (2006). Introduction. Lingua. 116 (11), 1745-1749
ROBINSON, O., (2005). Charles A. Peek and Robert W. Hamblin (eds.), A Companion to Faulkner Studies (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004, $99.95, £56.99). Pp. 431. ISBN 0 313 32030 6.. Journal of American Studies. 39 (2), 338-338
ROBINSON, O., (2005). Alan Rice, Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic (London & New York: Continuum, 2003, £65 cloth, £19.99 paper). Pp. 244. ISBN 0 8264 5606 5, 0 8264 5607 3.. Journal of American Studies. 39 (1), 136-137
ROBINSON, O., (2003). “Liable to be anything”: The Creation of Joe Christmas in Faulkner's Light in August. Journal of American Studies. 37 (1), 119-133
ROBINSON, O., (2003). Maria Balshaw, Looking for Harlem: Urban Aesthetics in African American Literature (London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2000, £12.75). Pp. 169. ISBN 0 7453 1334 5.. Journal of American Studies. 37 (2), 308-309
ROBINSON, O., (2003). Maria Balshaw, Looking for Harlem: Urban Aesthetics in African American Literature (London and Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press, 2000, £12.75). Pp. 169. ISBN 0 7453 13344 5.. Journal of American Studies. 37 (3), 455-456
Robinson, O., (2003). Interested Parties and Theorems to Prove: Narrative and Identity in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy. The Southern Literary Journal. 36 (1), 58-73
Robinson, O., (2001). Monuments and Footprints: The Mythology of Flem Snopes. The Faulkner Journal. 17 (1), 69-86
Robinson, O., (2001). That florid, swaggering gesture: Faulkners Thomas Sutpen as Southern Writer. European Journal of American Culture. 20 (2), 100-111
Robinson, O., (1999). Faulkner: Masks and metaphors. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES. 33, 538-539
Books (1)
Fumagalli, MC., Hulme, P., Robinson, O. and Wylie, L., (2013). Surveying the American Tropics: A Literary Geography from New York to Rio. Liverpool UP. 9781846318900
Book chapters (8)
Robinson, O., (2017). "Don't anyone tell me that New Orleans is a filthy swamp-hole": Fate, Fever, and the City as Nexus in Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein's The Mysteries of New Orleans. In: New Orleans and the Global South: Caribbean, Creolization, Carnival. Editors: Ette, O. and M�ller, G., . Tranvia. 139- 157. 978-3-487-15504-3
Robinson, O., (2017). "Don't Anyone Tell Me That New Orleans Is a Filthy Swamp-Hole": Fate, Fever, and the City as Nexus in Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein's The Mysteries of New Orleans. In: New Orleans and the Global South: Caribbean, Creolization, Carnival. Georg Olms Verlag. 135- 152. 9783487155043
Robinson, O., (2016). George Washington Cable and Grace King. In: The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 201- 214. 9781137477736
Robinson, O., (2016). “Proffered for Your Perusal in Ring by Concentric Ring”. In: The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U. S. South. Editors: Hobson, F. and Ladd, B., . Oxford University Press. 253- 269. 9780199767472
Robinson, O., (2016). ‘The Head-Quarters of Death’: Early Nineteenth-Century New Orleans as Gothic Nexus. In: Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture: The Americas. Editors: Edwards, JD. and Vasconcelos, S., . Routledge. 40- 55. 9781138915862
Fumagalli, MC., Hulme, P., Robinson, O. and Wylie, L., (2013). Introduction. In: Surveying the American Tropics: A Literary Geography from New York to Rio. Editors: Fumagalli, MC., Hulme, P., Robinson, O. and Wylie, L., . Liverpool University Press. 1- 20. 9781846318900
Robinson, O., (2012). “That City Foreign and Paradoxical”. In: Faulkner and Formalism. University Press of Mississippi. 56- 75. 9781617032561
Robinson, O., (2007). Reflections on Language and Narrative. In: A Companion to William Faulkner. Wiley. 115- 132. 9781405122245
Conferences (1)
Robinson, O., (2011). NORTH TO THE SOUTH: NEW ORLEANIAN IDENTITIES IN THE WORK OF W. ADOLPHE ROBERTS AND GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE
Other (1)
(2004).A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South,Blackwell Publishing Ltd
