Ben Robbins

Ben Robbins is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in the Department for American Studies at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). Robbins received his PhD from the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, after completing his MSt at Oxford University and his BA at Durham University (both in the UK); his doctoral dissertation was titled "Gender, Film, and Culture in the Novels and Screenwriting of William Faulkner." His work on Faulkner, modernism, popular culture, and gender studies has appeared in the Journal of Screenwriting, the Faulkner Journal, and Genre. His piece on Faulkner and the digital humanities, which was published in Studies in American Culture, recently received the Jerome Stern Award for the best article in the journal in 2016. He has been a visiting fellow at both the University of Virginia (2012) and l'Ècole des Hautes Ètudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2018).