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Dr Thom Robinson

Associate Lecturer

Background

I received my PhD in English Literature from the University of Sheffield in 2015. After previously teaching at Sheffield and Bishop Grosseteste University, I've taught at Â鶹´«Ã½ since 2016.

Research

My primary research specialism is the American Beat writer, William S. Burroughs. I'm currently working on a chapter for the edited collection, William S. Burroughs in Context (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press), as well as a monograph on Burroughs and nostalgia. Examples of my Burroughs work can be read online at , most recently an article on Burroughs' relationship with the work of the English writer and painter, Denton Welch.


Recent publications include a chapter in What Goes On: The Velvet Underground and After (ed. Sean Albiez and David Pattie), in which I examine literary influences on the songwriting of Lou Reed through two controversial novels of the '60s: John Rechy's City of Night and Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn.


My interests are broad, but include mid-century American novels, postwar subcultures, and intersections between literature and popular music.

Teaching

SEL1003: Introduction to Literary Studies 1


SEL1004: Introduction to Literary Studies 2

Publications

  • Article

    • Robinson Thom. . Comparative American Studies 2016, 14(2), 109-125.

  • Book Chapter

    • Robinson Thom. “The Riskiest Kind of Writing Available”: Lou Reed, Grove Press, and the Literary Underground. In: Sean Albiez and David Pattie, ed. What Goes On: The Velvet Underground and After. Bloomsbury, 2022. Submitted.

  • Online Publications

    • Robinson T. . RealityStudio, 2021. Available at: .
    • Robinson Thom. Thoughts on the Burroughs Archive. RealityStudio, 2011. Available at: https://realitystudio.org/scholarship/thoughts-on-the-burroughs-archive.
    • Robinson Thom. In Cold Blood: William Burroughs' Curse on Truman Capote. RealityStudio, 2011. Available at: https://realitystudio.org/biography/in-cold-blood-william-burroughs-curse-on-truman-capote.
    • Robinson Thom. Burroughs' Library: An Exercise in Biographical Minutiae. European Beat Studies Network, 2011. Available at: https://ebsn.eu/scholarship/articles/thomas-robinson-burroughs-library.

  • Reviews

    • Robinson T. . Times Literary Supplement 2020.
    • Robinson T. . Journal of American Studies 2019, 53(1), E10.
    • Robinson Thom. . Twentieth-Century Literature 2017, 63(4), 499-506.