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Timothy M. Robinson
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Timothy M. Robinson

Visiting Assistant Professor

Bates College

 

 

State University New York College at Brockport    B.S.

The Pennsylvania State University                          M.A./Ph.D.

 

Teaching Interests:

 

American Literature

African American Literature

Literary Theory

Writing/College Composition

 

 

Courses Taught:

 

African American Literature

Langston Hughes and the Blues Aesthetic

The African American Novel: Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives

In the Presence of the Ancestor: History, Culture, and the Literary Imagination

 

Research:

 

American and African American Literature

Modernity

Gender Studies

Cultural Studies

 

Works in Progress:

 

Manuscript: In The Presence of the Ancestor: History, Culture, and the Literary Imagination 

 

General Editor: The Encyclopedia of Slavery and Freedom in American Literature.  

 

Publications:

 

“Signifying.” Icons of African American Literature.  Greenwood Press. Vol. 2 (forthcoming).

 

“Postmodern Negotiations and the Ancestral Presence in African American Fiction.”  Southwestern University’s Brown Working Papers VIII (2008).

 

“Teaching the Ancestor Figure in African American Literature.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (Winter 2007).

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Robinson, Timothy M.
Visiting Assistant Professor
207-786-6314
Pettigrew Hall, Room 205
trobinso@bates.edu

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