Robinson, Heather

Professor

English

Phone: 718-262-2479
Office Location: AC-2A02A
Email: hrobinson@york.cuny.edu

Personal Website

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 treatment of definite descriptions and demonstratives from her doctoral dissertation, "Unexpected (In)definitness: plural generic expressions in Romance," is currently enjoying something of a renaissance.

Office Hours

Education

Areas of Expertise

• Applied Linguistics, including translinguality and transnationality, and language identit(ies)
• Writing Studies
• Violet Hunt
• second world war
• feminist literary criticism
• diaspora
• language
• Golden Age Detective Fiction

Publications in Field Of Expertise

Other