Benjamin Robbins, PhD
Project Leader
Department of American Studies
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52d
6020 Innsbruck
Office hour
by appointment
Humanities building, 8rd floor, room 40826
Tel: +43 512 507-41610
E-mail: benjamin.robbins@uibk.ac.at
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2392-1737
Projects
Degrees
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PhD in American Literary and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Thesis title: ‘Gender, Film, and Culture in the Novels and Screenwriting of William Faulkner’ -
MSt in English Literature 1900–present, Oxford University, UK
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BA (Hons) in English Literature, Durham University, UK
Research Interests
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Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature
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Modernism
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Classical Hollywood
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Gender and Queer Studies
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Transnational Literature and Culture
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Narratology
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Popular Culture
Teaching
current semester: course descriptions
Recent Publications (2020-present)
Monograph
Faulkner’s Hollywood Novels: Women between Page and Screen University of Virginia Press, 2024.
Author’s corner Q & A with Ben RobbinsEdited collections
Special issue of AmLit: American Literatures on “Queer Ruralisms,” 4:2 (October 2024), co-edited with Ralph Poole.
Special issue of the Appalachian Journal on “Transnational Perspectives: Attachment and Appropriation in ‘Our’ Appalachia” 48: 3-4 (Spring/Summer 2021), co-edited with Christian Quendler.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
“Introduction: Queer Ruralisms” with Ralph Poole. AmLit: American Literatures 4:2, special issue on “Queer Ruralisms” (October 2024): 4-21.
"'Marriages ought to be secret': Queer Marriages of Convenience and the Exile Narrative." Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS), 5:1, special issue on 'The Childfree Woman in Literature, Film, and Television' (December 2023): 100-122.
“Introduction: Attachment and Appropriation in ‘Our’ Appalachia” with Christian Quendler. Appalachian Journal 48: 3-4 (Spring/Summer 2021): 156-67.
Book chapters
“Visualizing Narrative Modes: The Narratological Mapping of Trauma in Faulkner’s Sanctuary.” Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Theresa M. Towner. University of Virginia Press, 2022, pp. 84-103.
“‘The Straight Queer’: Hipster Appropriation in the Work of James Franco.” Hipster Culture: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives, ed. Heike Steinhoff. Bloomsbury, 2021, pp. 215-32.
“‘The Mediterranean self’: Mapping Exile in Norman Douglas’s South Wind and Bryher’s Two Selves.” Norman Douglas: 11. Symposium, ed. Wilhelm Meusburger. Wolfgang Neugebauer Verlag, 2020, pp. 41–48.
New media
“Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ Exile Writers from 1900 to 1969.” Network visualizations website. University of Innsbruck. 2023.
“Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ+ Exile Writers from 1900 to 1969.” Data set. University of Innsbruck. 2023.
“Christopher Isherwood in Exile.” Verso: The Blog of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. 2023.
“Using Digital Yoknapatawpha to Analyze ‘A Rose for Emily’ as a Gothic Literary Work.” Digital Yoknapatawpha (DY), University of Virginia. 2020.
Conference Papers, Guest Lectures, and Roundtable Discussions (2021-present)
“Faulkner, the Hollywood Novel, and the Genre Hybridity of Pylon.” Faulkner’s Anniversaries: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA. 24 July 2024.
Participant in roundtable discussion on “Queer Theory and Narrative Theory in Research and Pedagogy Today,” with Heather K. Love, Ralph J. Poole und Robyn Warhol, Queer Narratives of Exile, Travel, and Mobility: International Workshop, Claudiana, University of Innsbruck. 6 June 2024.
“The Anglophone Queer Exile Narrative in Transnational Context(s),” Queer Narratives of Exile, Travel, and Mobility: International Workshop, Claudiana, University of Innsbruck. 6 June 2024.
“Introduction: Queer Narratives Workshop,” Queer Narratives of Exile, Travel, and Mobility: International Workshop, Claudiana, University of Innsbruck. 6 June 2024.
“‘She's just that international’: An Intersectional Reading of the Modernist Exile Narrative.” Narrative 2024, Newcastle University, UK. 18 April 2024.
“Queer Exile and the Cold War Transatlantic Novels of James Baldwin and Patricia Highsmith.” The Spatial Imagination in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature and Art, University of Strasbourg, France. 22 March 2024.
“Southern Flight, Southern Return: Queer Mobilities in Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley.” Southern Trans/formations, Southern Studies Forum, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens) and Université d’Artois (Arras), France. 23 September 2023.
“Queer Exile Literature and the Mainland–Island Binary.” Queer (Second) Cities, online conference, organized by University of Freiburg and University of Surrey. 31 August 2023.
“Queer Exile Literature and the Island of Capri.” Project presentation, Cultures in Contact (KiK) research centre, University of Innsbruck. Invited talk. 24 May 2023.
“Queering the Port Cities of Panama and Tangier in Jane Bowles’s Two Serious Ladies and Alfred Chester’s ‘The Foot.’” April Conference Fifteen: Humanity/Humanities, Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. 21 April 2023.
“Revisiting Weimar Berlin in the Fictions of Christopher Isherwood, Stephen Spender, and John Lehmann.” Brown Bag Talk, the Huntington Library. Invited talk. 1 February 2023.
“Revisiting Interwar Berlin, Hamburg, and Vienna in the Fictions of Christopher Isherwood, Stephen Spender, and John Lehmann.” USC Associates’ Lectures in U.S. Cultures, Departments of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Invited lecture. 26 January 2023.
“Norman Douglas and the Exile Literary Tradition.” Norman Douglas: A Symposium, Centro Caprense Ignazio Cerio, Capri, Italy. Invited talk. 14 October 2022.
“‘Jest another Snopes’: The Mansion, Late Modernist Aesthetics, and the Proliferation of Character.” Faulkner’s Modernisms: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA. 19 July 2022.
“The Legacy of Henry James’s Transnational Novel The Ambassadors in Queer American Literature.” Gender and American Studies: Intersectional Perspectives lecture series, University of Salzburg. Invited lecture. 9 June 2022.
“Writing the Midwest in Exile: Robert McAlmon’s Village: As It Happened through a Fifteen Year Period (1924) and Queer Detachment.” Flyover Fictions International Conference, University of Innsbruck. 28 May 2022.
Presentation of Project Results for “Graph Visualizations for Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ Exile Writers.” Digital Humanities Research Centre (FZDH), University of Innsbruck. Online meeting. Invited presentation. 19 November 2021.
“Faulkner’s Hollywood Allusions and the Semantic Fields of Contagion or Commodification.” Faulkner’s Fetishized Words: International Zoom Symposium, University of Picardy Jules Verne and University of Richmond. Online conference. 21 May 2021.
“Faulkner’s Sanctuary, Cinematic Flapperdom, and the Pre-Code Vice Film.” Faulkner, Transgressive Fiction, Postmodernism: Faulkner Studies in the UK colloquium, Royal Holloway, University of London. Online conference. 29 January 2021.
Participant in roundtable discussion on “Queer Theory and Narrative Theory in Research and Pedagogy Today,” with Heather K. Love, Ralph J. Poole und Robyn Warhol, Queer Narratives of Exile, Travel, and Mobility: International Workshop, Claudiana, University of Innsbruck. 6 June 2024.
“The Anglophone Queer Exile Narrative in Transnational Context(s),” Queer Narratives of Exile, Travel, and Mobility: International Workshop, Claudiana, University of Innsbruck. 6 June 2024.
“Introduction: Queer Narratives Workshop,” Queer Narratives of Exile, Travel, and Mobility: International Workshop, Claudiana, University of Innsbruck. 6 June 2024.
“‘She's just that international’: An Intersectional Reading of the Modernist Exile Narrative.” Narrative 2024, Newcastle University, UK. 18 April 2024.
“Queer Exile and the Cold War Transatlantic Novels of James Baldwin and Patricia Highsmith.” The Spatial Imagination in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature and Art, University of Strasbourg, France. 22 March 2024.
“Southern Flight, Southern Return: Queer Mobilities in Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley.” Southern Trans/formations, Southern Studies Forum, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens) and Université d’Artois (Arras), France. 23 September 2023.
“Queer Exile Literature and the Mainland–Island Binary.” Queer (Second) Cities, online conference, organized by University of Freiburg and University of Surrey. 31 August 2023.
“Queer Exile Literature and the Island of Capri.” Project presentation, Cultures in Contact (KiK) research centre, University of Innsbruck. Invited talk. 24 May 2023.
“Queering the Port Cities of Panama and Tangier in Jane Bowles’s Two Serious Ladies and Alfred Chester’s ‘The Foot.’” April Conference Fifteen: Humanity/Humanities, Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. 21 April 2023.
“Revisiting Weimar Berlin in the Fictions of Christopher Isherwood, Stephen Spender, and John Lehmann.” Brown Bag Talk, the Huntington Library. Invited talk. 1 February 2023.
“Revisiting Interwar Berlin, Hamburg, and Vienna in the Fictions of Christopher Isherwood, Stephen Spender, and John Lehmann.” USC Associates’ Lectures in U.S. Cultures, Departments of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Invited lecture. 26 January 2023.
“Norman Douglas and the Exile Literary Tradition.” Norman Douglas: A Symposium, Centro Caprense Ignazio Cerio, Capri, Italy. Invited talk. 14 October 2022.
“‘Jest another Snopes’: The Mansion, Late Modernist Aesthetics, and the Proliferation of Character.” Faulkner’s Modernisms: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA. 19 July 2022.
“The Legacy of Henry James’s Transnational Novel The Ambassadors in Queer American Literature.” Gender and American Studies: Intersectional Perspectives lecture series, University of Salzburg. Invited lecture. 9 June 2022.
“Writing the Midwest in Exile: Robert McAlmon’s Village: As It Happened through a Fifteen Year Period (1924) and Queer Detachment.” Flyover Fictions International Conference, University of Innsbruck. 28 May 2022.
Presentation of Project Results for “Graph Visualizations for Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ Exile Writers.” Digital Humanities Research Centre (FZDH), University of Innsbruck. Online meeting. Invited presentation. 19 November 2021.
“Faulkner’s Hollywood Allusions and the Semantic Fields of Contagion or Commodification.” Faulkner’s Fetishized Words: International Zoom Symposium, University of Picardy Jules Verne and University of Richmond. Online conference. 21 May 2021.
“Faulkner’s Sanctuary, Cinematic Flapperdom, and the Pre-Code Vice Film.” Faulkner, Transgressive Fiction, Postmodernism: Faulkner Studies in the UK colloquium, Royal Holloway, University of London. Online conference. 29 January 2021.
Publications before 2020
FSP Digital Science Center (DiSC)
Publikationen 2023
Sonstige Publikationen
elektronische Publikation, wissenschaftliche
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Robbins, Benjamin (2023): Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ+ Exile Writers From 1900 to 1969 (http://queerexilelit.uibk.ac.at/). (Weblink)
Forschungsdaten
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Robbins, Benjamin (2023): Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ+ Exile Writers From 1900 to 1969 (Datensatz). Version v1. In: Universität Innsbruck - Data Repository. (DOI) (Weblink)
FSP Kulturelle Begegnungen - Kulturelle Konflikte
Publikationen 2024
(Mit-)Herausgeberschaft von Periodika / Buchreihen
Herausgeberschaft von Periodikum / Buchreihe
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Robbins, Benjamin; Ralph Poole: Guest Editors Special Issue "Queer Ruralisms": Volume 4 / Issue 2 - AmLit: American Literatures, 03.10.2024. (Weblink)
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
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Robbins, Benjamin (2024): Space, Sexuality, and Thornton Wilder's Villa Rhabani.
In: Thornton Wilder Journal 5/1, S. 99 - 119. (DOI) (Weblink) -
Robbins, Benjamin; Poole, Ralph (2024): Introduction: Queer Ruralisms.
In: AmLit: American Literatures 4/2, S. 4 - 21. (Volltext) (DOI) (Weblink)
Publikationen 2023
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
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Robbins, Benjamin (2023): "Marriages ought to be secret": Queer Marriages of Convenience and the Exile Narrative.
In: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 5/1, S. 100 - 122. (Volltext) (DOI) (Weblink)
Sonstige Publikationen
elektronische Publikation, wissenschaftliche
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Robbins, Benjamin (2023): Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ+ Exile Writers From 1900 to 1969 (http://queerexilelit.uibk.ac.at/). (Weblink)
elektronische Publikation, transferorientierte
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Robbins, Benjamin (2023): Christopher Isherwood in Exile. In: Verso - The Blog of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 23 June. (Weblink)
Forschungsdaten
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Robbins, Benjamin (2023): Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ+ Exile Writers From 1900 to 1969 (Datensatz). Version v1. In: Universität Innsbruck - Data Repository. (DOI) (Weblink)
Publikationen 2021
(Mit-)Herausgeberschaft von Periodika / Buchreihen
Herausgeberschaft von Periodikum / Buchreihe
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Quendler, Christian; Robbins, Benjamin: Guest Editors: Transnational Perspectives: Attachment and Appropriation in 'Our' Appalachia, guest-double-issue of Appalachian Journal 48:3-4 (2021): 133–318 - Appalachian Journal, 01.07.2021 - 31.12.2021. (Weblink)
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenbeitrag (Editorial)
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Quendler, Christian; Robbins, Benjamin (2021): Transnational Perspectives: Attachment and Appropriation in 'Our' Appalachia.
In: Appalachian Journal 48/3-4, S. 156 - 167. (Weblink)
Institut für Amerikastudien
Publikationen 2024
(Mit-)Herausgeberschaft von Periodika / Buchreihen
Herausgeberschaft von Periodikum / Buchreihe
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Robbins, Benjamin; Ralph Poole: Guest Editors Special Issue "Queer Ruralisms": Volume 4 / Issue 2 - AmLit: American Literatures, 03.10.2024. (Weblink)
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
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Robbins, Benjamin (2024): Space, Sexuality, and Thornton Wilder's Villa Rhabani.
In: Thornton Wilder Journal 5/1, S. 99 - 119. (DOI) (Weblink) -
Robbins, Benjamin; Poole, Ralph (2024): Introduction: Queer Ruralisms.
In: AmLit: American Literatures 4/2, S. 4 - 21. (Volltext) (DOI) (Weblink)
Publikationen 2023
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
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Robbins, Benjamin (2023): "Marriages ought to be secret": Queer Marriages of Convenience and the Exile Narrative.
In: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 5/1, S. 100 - 122. (Volltext) (DOI) (Weblink)
Sonstige Publikationen
elektronische Publikation, wissenschaftliche
-
Robbins, Benjamin (2023): Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ+ Exile Writers From 1900 to 1969 (http://queerexilelit.uibk.ac.at/). (Weblink)
elektronische Publikation, transferorientierte
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Robbins, Benjamin (2023): Christopher Isherwood in Exile. In: Verso - The Blog of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 23 June. (Weblink)
Forschungsdaten
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Robbins, Benjamin (2023): Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ+ Exile Writers From 1900 to 1969 (Datensatz). Version v1. In: Universität Innsbruck - Data Repository. (DOI) (Weblink)
Publikationen 2022
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Sammelbandaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
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Robbins, Benjamin (2022): Visualizing Narrative Modes: The Narratological Mapping of Trauma in Faulkner's Sanctuary.
In: Towner, Theresa M.: Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First Century. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia., ISBN 9780813948294, S. 84 - 103. (DOI) (Weblink)
Sonstige Publikationen
elektronische Publikation, wissenschaftliche
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Robbins, Benjamin (2022): Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ Exile Writers from 1900 to 1969. (Weblink)
Datenbankbeitrag, wissenschaftlicher
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Penner, Erin Kay; Railton, Stephen; Padgett, John; Robbins, Benjamin (additional editing) (2022): ‘Faulkner’s “Appendix Compson: 1699-1945”. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha (DY), University of Virginia. (Weblink)
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Penner, Erin Kay; Railton, Stephen; Robbins, Benjamin (additional editing) (2022): Faulkner’s “Elly”. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha (DY), University of Virginia. (Weblink)
Publikationen 2021
(Mit-)Herausgeberschaft von Periodika / Buchreihen
Herausgeberschaft von Periodikum / Buchreihe
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Quendler, Christian; Robbins, Benjamin: Guest Editors: Transnational Perspectives: Attachment and Appropriation in 'Our' Appalachia, guest-double-issue of Appalachian Journal 48:3-4 (2021): 133–318 - Appalachian Journal, 01.07.2021 - 31.12.2021. (Weblink)
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Zeitschriftenbeitrag (Editorial)
-
Quendler, Christian; Robbins, Benjamin (2021): Transnational Perspectives: Attachment and Appropriation in 'Our' Appalachia.
In: Appalachian Journal 48/3-4, S. 156 - 167. (Weblink)
Sammelbandaufsatz (Originalarbeit)
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Robbins, Ben (2021): 'The Straight Queer': Hipster Appropriation in the Work of James Franco.
In: Steinhoff, Heike: Hipster Culture. Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives. London [u.a.]: Bloomsbury Publishing., ISBN 978-1-50137-042-7, S. 215 - 232. (Weblink)
Sonstige Publikationen
Datenbankbeitrag, wissenschaftlicher
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Coleman, Robert; Rieger, Christopher; Robbins, Benjamin (2021): Faulkner's "An Error in Chemistry." In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)
Publikationen 2020
Beiträge in Büchern / Zeitschriften
Beitrag in Proceedingsband (Full Paper)
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Robbins, Benjamin (2020): “The Mediterranean self”: Mapping Exile in Douglas’s South Wind and Bryher’s Two Selves.
In: Meusburger, Wilhelm; Norman Douglas Forschungsstelle; Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek: Norman Douglas. 11. Symposium : Bregenz und Thüringen, Vorarlberg, 9./10.10.2020. Graz, Feldkirch: Neugebauer., ISBN 978-3-85376-278-3, S. 41 - 48.
Sonstige Publikationen
elektronische Publikation, wissenschaftliche
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Robbins, Benjamin (2020): Using Digital Yoknapatawpha to Analyze 'A Rose for Emily' as a Gothic Literary Work. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)
Datenbankbeitrag, wissenschaftlicher
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Towner, Theresa M.; Railton, Stephen; Robbins, Benjamin (2020): Faulkner's "A Courtship." In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)
Medienbeiträge
Beitrag in (Web-)Radiosendung
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Hofer, Roberta; Robbins, Benjamin: Brexit (Interview).
In: ORF Radio Tirol vom 31.01.2020.
Publikationen 2019
Sonstige Publikationen
Datenbankbeitrag, wissenschaftlicher
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Carothers, James B.; Towner, Theresa M.; Robbins, Benjamin; Watkins, Lorie (2019): Faulkner’s „Shingles for the Lord”. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)
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Cornell, Elizabeth; Railton, Stephen; Robbins, Benjamin; Watkins, Lorie (2019): Faulkner’s „Hair”: In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)
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Padgett, John; Railton, Stephen; Robbins, Benjamin (2019): Faulkner's "Flags in the Dust". In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)
Publikationen 2018
Sonstige Publikationen
Datenbankbeitrag, wissenschaftlicher
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Carothers, James B.; Railton, Stephen; Padgett, John; Robbins, Benjamin (2018): Faulkner’s „Lion“. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)
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Robbins, Benjamin (2018): Faulkner's 'Dry September': Eingabe und Lektorat der Schlüsselwörter der Ressource im Digital Yoknapatawpha. (Weblink)
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Towner, Theresa M.; Coleman, Robert; Penner, Erin Kay; Robbins, Benjamin (2018): Faulkner’s „Go Down, Moses”. In: Digital Yoknapatawpha, University of Virginia. (Weblink)