Research Interests for Robyn Wiegman

Robyn Wiegman is Professor of Women's Studies and Literature 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 Object Lessons (2012), 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 1998-2004 and director of Women's Studies at UC-Irvine from 1997-2000.

Recent Publications

1. R. Wiegman, On Being in Time with Feminism (In preparation, 2013) (partially completed monograph.)
2. R. Wiegman, Object Lessons (2012), Duke University Press
3. R. Wiegman, "When the Lesbian Postmodern Meets the Lesbian Premodern", in The Lesbian Premodern, edited by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt (2011), pp. 203-12, Palgrave
4. R. Wiegman, Arguments Worth Having (In preparation, 2015?) (monograph in development.)
5. R. Wiegman, American Studies After US Exceptionalism (In preparation, 2016?) (monograph in development.)