Benjamin Robbins, PhD
Project Leader

Department of American Studies
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52
6020 Innsbruck

Office hour
by appointment
Humanities building, 3rd floor, room 40315

 

Tel: +43 512 507-4178
E-Mail: benjamin.robbins@uibk.ac.at

Projects
Networked Narratives:
Queer Exile Literature from 1900 to 1969

Degrees

  • PhD in American Literary and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
    Thesis title: ‘Gender, Film, and Culture in the Novels and Screenwriting of  William Faulkner’

  • MSt in English Literature 1900–present, Oxford University, UK

  • BA (Hons) in English Literature, Durham University, UK

Research Interests

  • Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature

  • Modernism

  • Classical Hollywood

  • Gender and Queer Studies

  • Transnational Literature and Culture

  • Narratology

Teaching

current semester: course descriptions

 

Selected Publications

2020

Book chapter

‘“The Mediterranean self”: Mapping Exile in Norman Douglas’s South Wind and Bryher’s Two Selves.” Norman Douglas: 11. Symposium, ed. Wilhelm Meusburger. Düns/Feldkirch: Wolfgang Neugebauer Verlag, 2020.

2018

New media

Collaborative Editor with Johannes Burgers and John Corrigan. Adaptation of  Faulkner’s The Mansion for The Digital Yoknapatawpha (DY) Project (2018).

http://hero.village.virginia.edu/~rwb3y/faulkner/

 

2017

Journal article

‘William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun and Cold War Hollywood Melodrama.’ Genre 50:3 (December 2017): 343–70.

 

2016

Journal articles

‘Reading for Data: Temporal Speed Shifts in Faulkner's “Death Drag” and the Process of Textual Digitization.’ Studies in American Culture 39:1 (October 2016): 7–20. Lead article in issue and recipient of Jerome Stern Award.

‘Inscrutable Images: Wartime Noir and the Compson Appendix.’ The Faulkner Journal, special issue on ‘Faulkner and noir’, 28:1 (Spring 2016): 55–77.

 

Book chapter

'Dangerous Quests: Transgressive Sexualities in William Faulkner’s “The Wild Palms” and James Baldwin’s Another Country.’ Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2013. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016.

Publications

FSP Kulturelle Begegnungen - Kulturelle Konflikte

Publikationen 2023

Sonstige Publikationen

elektronische Publikation, transferorientierte
  • Robbins, Benjamin (2023): Christopher Isherwood in Exile. In: Verso - The Blog of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 23 June. (Weblink)

Publikationen 2021

(Mit-)Herausgeberschaft von Periodika / Buchreihen

Herausgeberschaft von Periodikum / Buchreihe
  • Quendler, Christian; Robbins, Benjamin: Guest Editors: Transnational Perspectives: Attachment and Appropriation in 'Our' Appalachia, guest-double-issue of Appalachian Journal 48:3-4 (2021): 133–318 - Appalachian Journal, 01.07.2021 - 31.12.2021. (Weblink)

Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften

Zeitschriftenbeitrag (Editorial)
  • Quendler, Christian; Robbins, Benjamin (2021): Transnational Perspectives: Attachment and Appropriation in 'Our' Appalachia.
    In: Appalachian Journal 48/3-4, S. 156 - 167. (Weblink)




Institut für Amerikastudien

Publikationen 2023

Sonstige Publikationen

elektronische Publikation, transferorientierte
  • Robbins, Benjamin (2023): Christopher Isherwood in Exile. In: Verso - The Blog of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 23 June. (Weblink)

Publikationen 2022

Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften

Sammelbandaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
  • Robbins, Benjamin (2022): Visualizing Narrative Modes: The Narratological Mapping of Trauma in Faulkner's Sanctuary.
    In: Towner, Theresa M.: Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First Century. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia., ISBN 9780813948294, S. 84 - 103. (DOI) (Weblink)

Sonstige Publikationen

elektronische Publikation, wissenschaftliche
  • Robbins, Benjamin (2022): Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ Exile Writers from 1900 to 1969. (Weblink)

Datenbankbeitrag, wissenschaftlicher
  • Penner, Erin Kay; Railton, Stephen; Padgett, John; Robbins, Benjamin (additional editing) (2022): ‘Faulkner’s “Appendix Compson: 1699-1945”. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha (DY), University of Virginia. (Weblink)

  • Penner, Erin Kay; Railton, Stephen; Robbins, Benjamin (additional editing) (2022): Faulkner’s “Elly”. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha (DY), University of Virginia. (Weblink)

Publikationen 2021

(Mit-)Herausgeberschaft von Periodika / Buchreihen

Herausgeberschaft von Periodikum / Buchreihe
  • Quendler, Christian; Robbins, Benjamin: Guest Editors: Transnational Perspectives: Attachment and Appropriation in 'Our' Appalachia, guest-double-issue of Appalachian Journal 48:3-4 (2021): 133–318 - Appalachian Journal, 01.07.2021 - 31.12.2021. (Weblink)

Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften

Zeitschriftenbeitrag (Editorial)
  • Quendler, Christian; Robbins, Benjamin (2021): Transnational Perspectives: Attachment and Appropriation in 'Our' Appalachia.
    In: Appalachian Journal 48/3-4, S. 156 - 167. (Weblink)

Sammelbandaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
  • Robbins, Ben (2021): 'The Straight Queer': Hipster Appropriation in the Work of James Franco.
    In: Steinhoff, Heike: Hipster Culture. Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives. London [u.a.]: Bloomsbury Publishing., ISBN 978-1-50137-042-7, S. 215 - 232. (Weblink)

Sonstige Publikationen

Datenbankbeitrag, wissenschaftlicher
  • Coleman, Robert; Rieger, Christopher; Robbins, Benjamin (2021): Faulkner's "An Error in Chemistry." In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)

Publikationen 2020

Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften

Beitrag in Proceedingsband (Full Paper)
  • Robbins, Benjamin (2020): “The Mediterranean self”: Mapping Exile in Douglas’s South Wind and Bryher’s Two Selves.
    In: Meusburger, Wilhelm; Norman Douglas Forschungsstelle; Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek: Norman Douglas. 11. Symposium : Bregenz und Thüringen, Vorarlberg, 9./10.10.2020. Graz, Feldkirch: Neugebauer., ISBN 978-3-85376-278-3, S. 41 - 48.

Sonstige Publikationen

elektronische Publikation, wissenschaftliche
  • Robbins, Benjamin (2020): Using Digital Yoknapatawpha to Analyze 'A Rose for Emily' as a Gothic Literary Work. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)

Datenbankbeitrag, wissenschaftlicher
  • Towner, Theresa M.; Railton, Stephen; Robbins, Benjamin (2020): Faulkner's "A Courtship." In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)

Medienbeiträge

Beitrag in (Web-)Radiosendung
  • Hofer, Roberta; Robbins, Benjamin: Brexit (Interview).
    In: ORF Radio Tirol vom 31.01.2020.

Publikationen 2019

Sonstige Publikationen

Datenbankbeitrag, wissenschaftlicher
  • Carothers, James B.; Towner, Theresa M.; Robbins, Benjamin; Watkins, Lorie (2019): Faulkner’s „Shingles for the Lord”. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)

  • Cornell, Elizabeth; Railton, Stephen; Robbins, Benjamin; Watkins, Lorie (2019): Faulkner’s „Hair”: In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)

  • Padgett, John; Railton, Stephen; Robbins, Benjamin (2019): Faulkner's "Flags in the Dust". In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)

Publikationen 2018

Sonstige Publikationen

Datenbankbeitrag, wissenschaftlicher
  • Carothers, James B.; Railton, Stephen; Padgett, John; Robbins, Benjamin (2018): Faulkner’s „Lion“. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)

  • Robbins, Benjamin (2018): Faulkner's 'Dry September': Eingabe und Lektorat der Schlüsselwörter der Ressource im Digital Yoknapatawpha. (Weblink)

  • Towner, Theresa M.; Coleman, Robert; Penner, Erin Kay; Robbins, Benjamin (2018): Faulkner’s „Go Down, Moses”. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)




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