Robin E. Field, Ph.D.
Robin E. Field, Professor of English, earned her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and her B.A. from Cornell University. She teaches such courses as Contemporary Literature, Immigrant Fictions, Multicultural Literature, Writing for Nonprofits, Quest for Identity, and Academic Writing. Her book Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction was published by Clemson University Press in 2020. She is co-editor of Transforming Diaspora: Communities Beyond National Boundaries (2011) and has published essays on Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, Alice Walker, Jana Monji, Ayad Akhtar, and Lynne Sharon Schwartz. She is Managing Editor of the journal South Asian Review and was awarded NEH fellowships in 2011 and 2016.