
Robinson, Heather
Professor
English
Phone: 718-262-2479
Office Location: AC-2A02A
Email: hrobinson@york.cuny.edu
Heather works at the intersections of Writing Studies, Applied Linguistics, Writing Program administration and Literary Studies. With Melissa Dinsman, she has researched the life and works of Violet Hunt, an under-studied writer of the interwar period, and her current research explores the New Zealand wartime detective fiction of the Golden Age writer, Ngaio Marsh. All Heather's research foregrounds feminist approaches to critical inquiry, and centers women's experiences and stories. Her most recent book is Language, Diaspora, Home: Identity and Women's Linguistic Space-Making, published by Routledge in 2023. And her doctoral dissertation, "Unexpected (In)definitness: plural generic expressions in Romance," is enjoying something of a renaissance at the moment.
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Education
Degree | Institution | Field | Dates |
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PhD | Rutgers University | Linguistics | 2005 |
BA | University of Sydney | English | 1997 |
Areas of Expertise
- Applied Linguistics, including translinguality and transnationality, and language identit(ies)
- Writing Program Administration
- Writing Studies
- Violet Hunt
- second world war
- feminist literary criticism
- diaspora
- language