Benjamin Robbins, PhD

Faulkner’s Hollywood Novels: Women between Page and Screen

University of Virginia Press, 2024.

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.

• “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).
• “Introduction: Attachment and Appropriation in ‘Our’ Appalachia” with Christian Quendler. Appalachian Journal 48: 3-4 (Spring/Summer 2021): 156-67. 

“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. 

“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.

• “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.