Shirleen Renea Robinson

Shirleen Robinson received her B.A. in English and Afro-American Studies from Princeton University. She worked briefly in McMillan/McGraw-Hill's educational publishing division; then, returned to academia to earn graduate degrees in English from Columbia University and Cornell University. Her current research interests focus on African-American literatures about childhood, kinship, and domesticity through psychoanalytic, legal, and critical race frameworks. To the classroom, she brings interests in nineteenth- and twentieth-century African-American and American literature; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; race, space, migration and community formation; visual and cultural studies. At Gettysburg College she holds a joint appointment in the Departments of English and Africana Studies.