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Dr Gemma Robinson

Senior Lecturer

English Studies Â鶹´«Ã½AV, Â鶹´«Ã½AV, FK9 4LA

Dr Gemma Robinson

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About me

B.A. (Cambridge), M.A. (Warwick), Ph.D. (Cambridge) I joined Â鶹´«Ã½AV in 2006, having previously held lectureships at Newcastle University and Trinity College, Dublin. I teach across the undergraduate programme, including core modules (Author, Reader, Text; Texts and Contexts; Meaning and Representation) and the optional module, Colonial and Postcolonial Imagination: the Caribbean. Currently I am convenor of the MLitt in Postcolonial Studies and I contribute to the MLitt in English Studies and the MLitt in Film Studies.

My research interests include Caribbean writing, especially poetry; Guyanese culture and politics; postcolonial literatures and cultures; Black British writing; slavery in the Americas; publishing in the Caribbean; cultures of reading; textual criticism. My recent work has been collaborative and focused on questions about the writing of place and the role of reading within postcolonial contexts. With Jackie Kay and James Procter I co-edited Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe, 2012). This is an anthology of British place-poemswritten by black and Asian poets, and ordered in a journey from north to south.With Bethan Benwell and James Procter I co-edited a collection of essays, Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception (Routledge, 2012) and Reading After Empire, a special issue of New Formations (2011). These publications are all part of an AHRC-funded project, Devolving Diasporas, that explored the cultural production of ‘diasporic' literature and investigated relationships between reading, location, and migration (). My current research continues my interests in Martin Carter and Guyanese writing. I am the editor of University of Hunger, Collected Poems and Selected Prose of Martin Carter (Bloodaxe, 2006), and am completing a book on Carter and Caribbean literary culture. I contribute to the Guyanese newspaper, Stabroek News, and have written articles on Guyanese writers on the radio, Wilson Harris, teaching ‘the Americas', Caribbean manuscripts, Caribbean protest writing, Scotland and the Caribbean, and locations of reading. I administer the Charles Wallace Fellowship, bringing Indian creative writers to Â鶹´«Ã½AV University. The fellowships are awarded annually and last for one semester. For more information see . I am interested in supervising postgraduate research in the following areas: postcolonial literatures and cultures; Guyanese writing and culture; Caribbean poetry, prose fiction and drama; contemporary poetry in relation to questions of readership and publishing.

Research projects (4)

A poet of the Americas: Martin Carter and pan-Caribbean literary culture
PI: Dr Gemma Robinson
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Devolving Diasporas: Migration and Reception in central Scotland, 1980 - present
PI: Dr Bethan Benwell
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Caribbean-Scottish Passages: representations of colonial relations in Scottish Literature
PI: Dr Gemma Robinson
Funded by: The Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Caribbean- Scottish Passages: History Language and Literature
PI: Dr Gemma Robinson
Funded by: The British Academy
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Outputs (27)

Newspaper / Magazine

The Seasons of Wilson Harris

Robinson G (2022) The Seasons of Wilson Harris. The Poetry Review. 2022, pp. 50-57. https://poetrysociety.org.uk/publications/vol-112-no-2-summer-2022/

Book Chapter

Postcolonial Poetry of Great Britain

Robinson G (2017) Postcolonial Poetry of Great Britain. In: Ramazani J (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 110-123. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/european-and-world-literature-general-interest/cambridge-companion-postcolonial-poetry?format=PB

Edited Book

Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception

Benwell B, Procter J & Robinson G (eds.) (2012) Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception, First ed. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, 37. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & FRancis (Routledge).

Edited Book

Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets

Kay J, Procter J & Robinson G (eds.) (2012) Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets. Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series, 11. Tarset: Bloodaxe Books Ltd. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852249293

Book Chapter

Introduction

Benwell B, Procter J & Robinson G (2012) Introduction. In: Benwell B, Procter J & Robinson G (eds.) Postocolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-23. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415888714/

Book Chapter

That's maybe where I come from but that¡¯s not how I read: Diaspora, Location and Reading Identities

Benwell B, Procter J & Robinson G (2012) That's maybe where I come from but that¡¯s not how I read: Diaspora, Location and Reading Identities. In: Benwell B, Procter J & Robinson G (eds.) Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, 37. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp. 43-56. https://www.routledge.com/Postcolonial-Audiences-Readers-Viewers-and-Reception-1st-Edition/Benwell-Procter-Robinson/p/book/9780415888714

Other

Reading After Empire: Special Issue of New Formations

Benwell B (Editor), Procter J (Editor) & Robinson G (Editor) (2011) Reading After Empire: Special Issue of New Formations. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics, (73). http://www.newformations.co.uk/abstracts/nf73abstracts.html

Article

Not reading Brick Lane

Benwell B, Procter J & Robinson G (2011) Not reading Brick Lane. New Formations, 73, pp. 64-90. http://www.newformations.co.uk/abstracts/nf73abstracts.html

Edited Book

Guianese Poetry: 1831-1931

Cameron N & Robinson G (eds.) (2010) Guianese Poetry: 1831-1931. Guyana Classics Library. Georgetown, Guyana: The Caribbean Press.

Article

Editorial: 'Caribbean-Scottish Passages'

Robinson G & Sassi C (2008) Editorial: 'Caribbean-Scottish Passages'. International Journal of Scottish Literature, 4, pp. 1-8. http://www.ijsl.stir.ac.uk/issue4/editorial.htm

Book Chapter

Martin Carter

Robinson G (2006) Martin Carter. In: Palmer C (ed.) The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. 2nd ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 87. http://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do;jsessionid=1751AA07F4AA687B2251E3C4A1EA2B2A?N=197+4294904997&Ntk=P_EPI&Ntt=1203298146202531365810476957131853372&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial

Article

Teaching "the Americas"

Paton D, Beck J & Robinson G (2004) Teaching "the Americas". Radical History Review, (89), pp. 218-229. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/radical_history_review/v089/89.1robinson.html

Book Chapter

Guyana

Robinson G (2001) Guyana. In: Jones D (ed.) Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 1060-1066.

Book Chapter

Martin Wylde Carter

Robinson G (2001) Martin Wylde Carter. In: Jones D (ed.) Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 767-772.

Book Chapter

Martin Carter¡¯s poetic essays in community

Robinson G (2000) Martin Carter¡¯s poetic essays in community. In: Brown S (ed.) All Are Involved: The Art of Martin Carter. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, pp. 269-286. http://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/all-are-involved-art-martin-carter