B.A. (Cambridge), M.A. (Warwick), Ph.D. (Cambridge) I joined Stirling in 2006, having previously held lectureships at Newcastle University and Trinity College, Dublin. I teach across the undergraduate programme, including core modules (Author, Reader, Text; Texts and Contexts; Meaning and Representation) and the optional module, Colonial and Postcolonial Imagination: the Caribbean. Currently I am convenor of the MLitt in Postcolonial Studies and I contribute to the MLitt in English Studies and the MLitt in Film Studies.
My research interests include Caribbean writing, especially poetry; Guyanese culture and politics; postcolonial literatures and cultures; Black British writing; slavery in the Americas; publishing in the Caribbean; cultures of reading; textual criticism. My recent work has been collaborative and focused on questions about the writing of place and the role of reading within postcolonial contexts. With Jackie Kay and James Procter I co-edited Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe, 2012). This is an anthology of British place-poemswritten by black and Asian poets, and ordered in a journey from north to south.With Bethan Benwell and James Procter I co-edited a collection of essays, Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception (Routledge, 2012) and Reading After Empire, a special issue of New Formations (2011). These publications are all part of an AHRC-funded project, Devolving Diasporas, that explored the cultural production of ‘diasporic' literature and investigated relationships between reading, location, and migration (). My current research continues my interests in Martin Carter and Guyanese writing. I am the editor of University of Hunger, Collected Poems and Selected Prose of Martin Carter (Bloodaxe, 2006), and am completing a book on Carter and Caribbean literary culture. I contribute to the Guyanese newspaper, Stabroek News, and have written articles on Guyanese writers on the radio, Wilson Harris, teaching ‘the Americas', Caribbean manuscripts, Caribbean protest writing, Scotland and the Caribbean, and locations of reading. I administer the Charles Wallace Fellowship, bringing Indian creative writers to Stirling University. The fellowships are awarded annually and last for one semester. For more information see . I am interested in supervising postgraduate research in the following areas: postcolonial literatures and cultures; Guyanese writing and culture; Caribbean poetry, prose fiction and drama; contemporary poetry in relation to questions of readership and publishing.
A poet of the Americas: Martin Carter and pan-Caribbean literary culture
PI: Dr Gemma Robinson
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Devolving Diasporas: Migration and Reception in central Scotland, 1980 - present
PI: Dr Bethan Benwell
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Caribbean-Scottish Passages: representations of colonial relations in Scottish Literature
PI: Dr Gemma Robinson
Funded by: The Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Caribbean- Scottish Passages: History Language and Literature
PI: Dr Gemma Robinson
Funded by: The British Academy
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Book Chapter
The language we speak’: Kyk-Over-Al and little magazines
Robinson G (2019) The language we speak’: Kyk-Over-Al and little magazines. In: Bulson E (ed.) The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Global Modernist Magazines (Forthcoming). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Book Chapter
Postcolonial Poetry of Great Britain
Robinson G (2017) Postcolonial Poetry of Great Britain. In: Ramazani J (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 110-123. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/european-and-world-literature-general-interest/cambridge-companion-postcolonial-poetry?format=PB
Article
The reality of trespass: Wilson Harris and an impossible poetics of the Americas
Robinson G (2013) The reality of trespass: Wilson Harris and an impossible poetics of the Americas. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 49 (2), pp. 133-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2013.776372
Article
Role of sand as substrate and dietary component for juvenile sea cucumber Holothuria scabra
Robinson G, Slater MJ, Jones CLW & Stead SM (2013) Role of sand as substrate and dietary component for juvenile sea cucumber Holothuria scabra. Aquaculture, 392-395, pp. 23-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2013.01.036
Article
Textual communities in Guyana: a 'nearly go so' literary history
Robinson G (2013) Textual communities in Guyana: a 'nearly go so' literary history. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 48 (1), pp. 77-96. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989412471137
Edited Book
Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception
Benwell B, Procter J & Robinson G (eds.) (2012) Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception, First ed. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, 37. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & FRancis (Routledge).
Edited Book
Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets
Kay J, Procter J & Robinson G (eds.) (2012) Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets. Newcastle / Bloodaxe Poetry Series, 11. Tarset: Bloodaxe Books Ltd. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852249293
Book Chapter
Benwell B, Procter J & Robinson G (2012) Introduction. In: Benwell B, Procter J & Robinson G (eds.) Postocolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-23. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415888714/
Book Chapter
That's maybe where I come from but that’s not how I read: Diaspora, Location and Reading Identities
Benwell B, Procter J & Robinson G (2012) That's maybe where I come from but that’s not how I read: Diaspora, Location and Reading Identities. In: Benwell B, Procter J & Robinson G (eds.) Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, 37. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp. 43-56. https://www.routledge.com/Postcolonial-Audiences-Readers-Viewers-and-Reception-1st-Edition/Benwell-Procter-Robinson/p/book/9780415888714
Article
Benwell B, Procter J & Robinson G (2011) Not reading Brick Lane. New Formations, 73, pp. 64-90. http://www.newformations.co.uk/abstracts/nf73abstracts.html
Other
Reading After Empire: Special Issue of New Formations
Benwell B (Editor), Procter J (Editor) & Robinson G (Editor) (2011) Reading After Empire: Special Issue of New Formations. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics, (73). http://www.newformations.co.uk/abstracts/nf73abstracts.html
Edited Book
Cameron N & Robinson G (eds.) (2010) Guianese Poetry: 1831-1931. Guyana Classics Library. Georgetown, Guyana: The Caribbean Press.
Other
International Journal of Scottish Literature, Special Issue Caribbean-Scottish Passages
Robinson G (Editor) & Sassi C (Editor) (2008) International Journal of Scottish Literature, Special Issue Caribbean-Scottish Passages. International Journal of Scottish Literature, (4). http://www.ijsl.stir.ac.uk/issue4/index.htm
Article
Editorial: 'Caribbean-Scottish Passages'
Robinson G & Sassi C (2008) Editorial: 'Caribbean-Scottish Passages'. International Journal of Scottish Literature, 4, pp. 1-8. http://www.ijsl.stir.ac.uk/issue4/editorial.htm
Article
'From the plantation earth': Subjects of Slavery and the Work of Martin Carter
Robinson G (2007) 'From the plantation earth': Subjects of Slavery and the Work of Martin Carter. Moving Worlds, 7 (2), pp. 17-30. http://www.movingworlds.net/volumes/7/freedom-and-culture/
Other
The Arts Journal, Special Issue Over Seas: A Transnational Caribbean
Robinson G (Editor) (2006) The Arts Journal, Special Issue Over Seas: A Transnational Caribbean. The Arts Journal, 2 (2).
Edited Book
University of Hunger: the Collected Poems and Selected Prose of Martin Carter
Robinson G (ed.) (2006) University of Hunger: the Collected Poems and Selected Prose of Martin Carter. Tarset: Bloodaxe Books Ltd. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=185224710X
Book Chapter
Robinson G (2006) Martin Carter. In: Palmer C (ed.) The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. 2nd ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 87. http://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do;jsessionid=1751AA07F4AA687B2251E3C4A1EA2B2A?N=197+4294904997&Ntk=P_EPI&Ntt=1203298146202531365810476957131853372&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial
Article
Continental Voices: Guyanese writers on the radio
Robinson G (2006) Continental Voices: Guyanese writers on the radio. The Arts Journal, 2 (2), pp. 41-62. http://www.theartsjournal.org.gy/document/contents_vol2no2.html
Book Chapter
Redemptive Strategies in Wilson Harris’s Jonestown and Martin Carter’s Poems of Affinity
Robinson G (2004) Redemptive Strategies in Wilson Harris’s Jonestown and Martin Carter’s Poems of Affinity. In: Ledent B (ed.) Bridges Across Chasms: Towards a Transcultural Future in Caribbean Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 55-63.
Article
Paton D, Beck J & Robinson G (2004) Teaching "the Americas". Radical History Review, (89), pp. 218-229. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/radical_history_review/v089/89.1robinson.html
Article
'If freedom writes no happier alphabet': Martin Carter and Poetic Silence
Robinson G (2004) 'If freedom writes no happier alphabet': Martin Carter and Poetic Silence. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 8 (1), pp. 43-62. https://doi.org/10.1353/smx.2004.0010
Book Chapter
Robinson G (2001) Guyana. In: Jones D (ed.) Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 1060-1066.
Book Chapter
Robinson G (2001) Martin Wylde Carter. In: Jones D (ed.) Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 767-772.
Book Chapter
Martin Carter’s poetic essays in community
Robinson G (2000) Martin Carter’s poetic essays in community. In: Brown S (ed.) All Are Involved: The Art of Martin Carter. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, pp. 269-286. http://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/all-are-involved-art-martin-carter
Article
Vocabularies of protest and resistance: the early work of Wilson Harris and Martin Carter
Robinson G (2000) Vocabularies of protest and resistance: the early work of Wilson Harris and Martin Carter. Journal of Caribbean Literatures, 2 (1/2/3), pp. 36-46. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40986083