People
- Mixon Robinson
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- At Rutgers Since: 2019
- Email: rm.robinson@rutgers.edu
- Office: Murray 036A
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:30
- About:
- Teaching and Research Interests:
- Rhetorical studies, expository writing, nineteenth-century American literature, African American literature, law and culture studies, history of technology, sensory history, folklore, film studies
- Teaching and Research Interests:
- Education:
- Ph.D., Emory University, Department of English (2018)
- Dissertation: Between Stations: American Liberty and Locomotion from Walden to Plessy
- M.A., University of Mississippi, Department of English (2012)
- J.D., University of Georgia School of Law (2009)
- B.A., Davidson College (2005)
- Ph.D., Emory University, Department of English (2018)
- Courses Taught:
Writing:
- Research in the Disciplines: Law and Culture
- Expository Writing
- Basic Composition
Literary Studies:
- 19c American Novel: Society, Media, and Protest
- The Rules of Writing and the Art of Rule-Breaking
- Freedom Movements: Personal Liberty and Public Transportation in U.S. Law and Culture
- Awards:
- Mellon Humanities Ph.D. Interventions Project (2018)
- Emory University, The Sierra Club, and Duke University Press
- James Richardson Prize for Research in African American Literature (2018)
- Mellon Teaching Fellowship (2017-2018)
- Emory University and Dillard Univeristy
- Annie Hall Essay Award (2015)
- "D.W. Griffith's Monstrous Birth: The Birth of a Nation and the Proto-typology of American Horror Cinema"
- Mellon Humanities Ph.D. Interventions Project (2018)
- otherdeptuniversitypostions:
- Academic Integrity Facilitator, Rutgers University
- Peer Reviewer, Writing and Pedagogy
- Publications:
- "Bell, Book, and Locomotive: Communicating Abolition in and out of Concord, Massachusetts," New England Quarterly 91.3 (September 2018): 448-482
- "Assumed Positions: The Postural Politics of Status in the 1880s U.S. South," Jahrbuch für Literatur und Medizin 6 (2014): 125-139
