Robin E. Field, Ph.D.

Biography

Robin E. Field, Ph.D., is the Manus Cooney Distinguished Service Professor in the English Department. She earned a B.A. with honors from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Her book, Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction, was published by Clemson University Press in 2020. She has co-edited three edited volumes of essays and published over two dozen journal articles, book chapters, and author interviews on contemporary American fiction, South Asian diasporic literature, gender studies, trauma, and women writers. She is editor of the open-access online journal Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts and managing editor of the journal South Asian Review. In addition, she has published short stories in literary magazine such as The Dalhousie Review, Orange Blossom Review, Isele Magazine, Bluestem Magazine, and Permafrost Magazine and attended Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing in 2024.

Education

• B.A., English, Cornell University
• Ph.D., English, University of Virginia

Publications and Presentations

• Fiction Participant, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, August 2024
• Fiction Participant, Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, June 2024
• “Becoming ‘One of Us’: Ethnic Discrimination, Community, and American Values in Sweet Land.” The Journal of American Culture, 2023
• “Peripartum Depression and Maternal Ambivalence in Helen Dunmore’s Talking to the Dead.” Unmasking New Maternal Realities: Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum in Global Literature and Media. Eds. Laura Lazzari and Giulia Po Delisle. Palgrave. 2024.
• “‘Watch Me Reposition’ Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine.” Teaching Anglophone South Asian Diasporic Literature. Eds. Nalini Iyer and Pallavi Rastogi. Modern Language Association, 2024.
• “Envisioning Palestine, Understanding America: Daughters of Immigrants in the Fiction of Susan Muaddi Darraj.” Daughters of Immigrants: A Multidisciplinary Study. Eds. Asha Jeffers and Catherine Bryan. Lexington Books, 2024.
• “Enabling New Perspectives of (Super)Power and Disability in Jeremy Scott’s The Ables.” Co-authored with Christopher Boucher. Disability and the Superhero: Essays on Ableism and Representation in Comic Media. Ed. Amber E. George. McFarland & Company, Inc., 2023.
• “Witnessing Trauma: The Ethical Imperative of Bystanders in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and And the Mountains Echoed.” Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature. Eds. Zanat Khan and Goutam Karmakar. Routledge UK, 2022.
• “Troubling Boundaries and Beginnings with ‘The Orange.’” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita. Eds. Pamela Thoma and Ruth Y. Hsu. Modern Language Association, 2021.
• “The Other Men of #MeToo: Male Rape in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, Sapphire’s The Kid, and Amber Tamblyn’s Any Man.” #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Assault and Rape Culture. Eds. Heather Hewett and Mary Holland. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
• Editor, Transformative Teaching Forum on Ungrading. Introduction: “Ungrading: Moving Ahead to Leave Grades Behind.” Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts, 1.2 (2023).
• Editor, Provocations: #MeToo and India. Introduction: “#MeToo and India: The Movement in Its Moment.” South Asian Review, 44.3-4 (2023).
• “On Fire.” Permafrost Magazine, 2024.
• “Your Garden.” Fictive Dream, July 2024.
• “Armadillo.” Bluestem Magazine, Spring/Summer 2024.
• “Mr. W.” Isele Magazine, January 2023.
• “The Wrong Call.” The Dalhousie Review, vol. 102, issue 3, Autumn 2022.
• “Painkillers.” Orange Blossom Review, vol. 8, Summer 2022.
• Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Keynote Lecture for the Conference on Creating a World Without Violence Against Women & Girls, Seamus Heaney Centre, “Literary Activism and Community Building in the Rape Novel.” November 25, 2022.
• Sacred Heart University. “The Representation of Male Rape in Twenty-First Century American Novels.” Do We Live in a Post-#MeToo Era? Urgent Conversations on Today’s Rape Culture.
• Gender and Women’s Studies Discussion Panel. Fairfield, Connecticut. October 27, 2021.
• Seattle University. “Rescripting Rape and the Victim-Survivor in Kingston, Mukherjee, and Chao.” English Department and Women and Gender Studies Program Special Lecture. Seattle, Washington. February 2, 2021.
• University of Delhi. “From Victim to Survivor: Representing Rape in Contemporary American Fiction.” Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies Special Lecture. Delhi, India. December 11, 2020.
• The English and Foreign Languages University. “Feminism, Intersectionality, and Diaspora: Examining Recent South Asian Diasporic Women Writers.” Department of English Conference on Diaspora, Gender, and Marginality. Hyderabad, India. September 26, 2020. (Zoom)
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Mahavidyalaya. “Recentering the Rape Victim in Contemporary American Novels.” Department of English Special Lecture. Kolkata, India. July 13, 2020.

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