Professor of English, Distinguished Professor of American Literature
& Director of American Studies, Director of the Center for the Humanities
Office
Moreland 224
Phone
541-737-1641
Email
drobinson@oregonstate.edu
Education
Ph.D., 1976/M.A., 1973 University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School 1972
B.A. University of Texas at Austin 1970
Areas of specialization
American Literature, Literature & Environment, American Studies
Selected publications
Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism, Cornell University
Press (2004).
The Political Emerson: Essential Essays on Politics and Social Reform,
(Ed.) Beacon Press (2004).
World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor, University
Press of Kentucky (1998).
Emerson and the Conduct of Life: Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in
the Later Work, Cambridge University Press, (1993).
"Margaret Fuller and the Transcendental Ethos: Woman in the Nineteenth
Century," PMLA 97 (January 1982): 83-98.
Apostle of Culture: Emerson as Preacher and Lecturer. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, (1982).
Grants, awards and honors
Oregon Professor of English
Distinguished Professor of American
Literature and Culture
Fulbright Guest Professor, University of Heidelberg, 1984-85