Benjamin Robbins, PhD
Department of American Studies
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52
6020 Innsbruck
Office hour
by appointment
Humanities building, 3rd floor, room 40306
Tel: +43 512 507-4188
Fax: +43 512 507-2879
E-Mail: benjamin.robbins@uibk.ac.at
Degrees
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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
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BA (Hons) in English Literature, Durham University, UK
Research Interests
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Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature
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Modernism
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Classical Hollywood
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Gender and Queer Studies
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Transnational Literature and Culture
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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
Publications 2020
Contributions to Books / Journals
Proceedings Article (Full Paper)
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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. Wolfgang Neugebauer Verlag., ISBN 978-3-85376-278-3, pp. 41 - 48.
Other Publications
Electronic Publication, Scientific
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Robbins, Benjamin (2020): Using Digital Yoknapatawpha to Analyze 'A Rose for Emily' as a Gothic Literary Work. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Web link)
Database Entry, Scientific
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Towner, Theresa M.; Railton, Stephen; Robbins, Benjamin (2020): Faulkner's "A Courtship." In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Web link)
Media Contributions
Contribution to Radio Programme
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Hofer, Roberta; Robbins, Benjamin: Brexit (Interview).
In: ORF Radio Tirol of 2020-01-31.
Publications 2019
Other Publications
Database Entry, Scientific
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Carothers, James B.; Towner, Theresa M.; Robbins, Benjamin; Watkins, Lorie (2019): Faulkner’s „Shingles for the Lord”. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Web link)
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Cornell, Elizabeth; Railton, Stephen; Robbins, Benjamin; Watkins, Lorie (2019): Faulkner’s „Hair”: In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Web link)
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Padgett, John; Railton, Stephen; Robbins, Benjamin (2019): Faulkner's "Flags in the Dust". In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Web link)
Publications 2018
Other Publications
Database Entry, Scientific
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Carothers, James B.; Railton, Stephen; Padgett, John; Robbins, Benjamin (2018): Faulkner’s „Lion“. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Web link)
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Robbins, Benjamin (2018): Faulkner's 'Dry September': Eingabe und Lektorat der Schlüsselwörter der Ressource im Digital Yoknapatawpha. (Web link)
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Towner, Theresa M.; Coleman, Robert; Penner, Erin Kay; Robbins, Benjamin (2018): Faulkner’s „Go Down, Moses”. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Web link)