PERSON: Bruce Robbins

Professor

Bruce Robbins is an American literary scholar, author and an academic. He is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Robbins’s research interests include book projects on the history of literary representations of atrocity and the connections between criticism and politics, along with cosmopolitanism, intellectuals, nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, and literary and cultural theory. He has authored several books including The Servant’s Hand: English Fiction from Below, Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, and The Beneficiary. He has also directed two documentaries, Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists and What Kind of Jew Is Shlomo Sand?

Robbins worked as co-editor of the journal Social Text from 1991 till 2000 and is editor-in-chief of the online journal politicsslashletters.org.

Robbins graduated in History and Literature from Harvard College in 1971. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University in 1976 and 1980, respectively.

Robbins started as an assistant of Modern English Literature at University of Geneva and then taught at University of Lausanne from 1981 till 1984 as a maître-assistant in American Literature. In 1984, he joined Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor and to Professor in 1987 and 1992, respectively. He was promoted to Professor II in 2000. In 2001, Robbins joined the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

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