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Publications

ROBBINS, BENJAMIN:

Articles

"Space, Sexuality, and Thornton Wilder's Villa Rhabani." Thornton Wilder Journal 5:1, November 2024, pp. 99-119. DOI: 10.5325/thorntonwilderj.5.1.0099

"Introduction: Queer Ruralisms" with Ralph Poole, AmLit: American Literatures 4:2, October 2024, pp. 4-21, special issue on “Queer Ruralisms.” DOI: 10.25364/27.4:2024.2.1

“‘Marriages ought to be secret’: Queer Marriages of Convenience and the Exile Narrative.” Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAAS), 5:1, 2023, pp. 100-122, special issue on “The Childfree Woman in Literature, Film, and Television.” DOI:  10.47060/jaaas.v5i1.173

Book chapters

"Queering the International Port City in Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille, Jane Bowles’s Two Serious Ladies, and Alfred Chester’s 'The Foot.'" Gender Across Media Landscapes, ed. Aleksandra Kamińska, Ewa Kowal, and Olga O'Toole. Leiden: Brill; forthcoming 2025. 

“Writing the Midwest in Exile: Robert McAlmon’s Village: As It Happened Through a Fifteen Year Period (1924) and Queer Distance.” Flyover Fictions, ed. Cornelia Klecker and Sascha Pöhlmann. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press; forthcoming spring 2025.

“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.

Special issues and edited collections

"Queer Ruralisms," edited with Ralph J. Poole (University of Salzburg), special issue of AmLit: American Literatures 4:2 (October 2024).

Contributions (order in special issue):

• Ralph J. Poole and Ben Robbins, "Introduction"
• Phillip Gordon (University of Mississippi), “Finding a Rural Trans South: Queer Migration and Belonging in Meredith Russo’s If I Was Your Girl”
• Kristen LeFevers (University of Tennessee), "Class and Capital in LGBTQ Appalachian Literature"
• H. J. E Champion (Université Paris Cité),  “Queer Landscapes: New England Farmers and Masculinity in the Midwest”
• Michael H. Feinberg (Hamilton College, NY), “Beyond the Imperial Metropole: Queer Anglophone Representations of the Haitian Revolution”
• Laura Handl (Dresden University of Technology), “Queer Southern Place-Making in A Dirty South Manifesto (2020)”
• Joshua Parker (University of Salzburg), “Queer Rural Space in Early Twenty-First Century American Narrative”
• Chris Belcher and Carter Sickels, A Conversation between Contemporary Queer Rural Writers from the United States 

Digital humanities

Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ+ Exile Writers, visualizations website expanded and updated 2023. Also accessible at: https://lgbt-network-innsbruck.vercel.app/

Networks of Anglophone LGBTQ+ Exile Writers, data set expanded and updated 2023, https://doi.org/10.48323/qcx3g-p3m39

Public engagement

"Christopher Isherwood in Exile." Verso: The Blog of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. June 20, 2023.

Project-related articles and book chapters

“‘This Wave Feels Like a Tsunami’: The Political Responses of RuPaul’s Drag Race to Anti-Drag Legislation in the United States.’ Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly 69:4, special issue on “Queer Politics in Media and Legal Cultures” (December 2024).

‘“The Straight Queer”: Hipster Appropriation in the Work of James Franco.’ Hipster Culture: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives, ed. Heike Steinhoff. London: Bloomsbury, 2021, pp. 215-32.