• PhD, University of Washington, 1988
• MFA, Indiana University, 1984
• BA, Indiana University, 1981
• Women's Studies Certificate, Indiana University, 1981

Research Interests:  

Robyn Wiegman is Professor of Women's Studies and Litearture and formerly the Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies at Duke, from 2001-2007. She earned her Ph.D. in American Literature at the University of Washington in 1988. She has taught at Syracuse University, Indiana University, and the University of California, Irvine. Her publications include American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender (1995), Who Can Speak: Identity and Critical Authority (1995), Feminism Beside Itself (1995), AIDS and the National Body (1997), The Futures of American Studies (2002), and Women's Studies on Its Own (2002). Wiegman's research interests include feminist theory, queer theory, American Studies, critical race theory, and film and media studies. She was co-director of the Dartmouth Summer Institute on American Studies from 1008-2004.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

Papers Published

• R. Wiegman. "Un-Remembering Monique Wittig." GLQ 13.4 (2007): 505-516.

• R. Wiegman. "Happiness: An American Americanist's Anti-Archive." Rivista di Studi Americani ( forthcoming (2008).
• R. Wiegman. "Romancing the Future: Internationalization as Symptom and Wish." American Studies: An Anthology  (2008).