Sarah Ruffing Robbins

Sarah Ruffing Robbins is the Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature in the Department of English at Texas Christian University's AddRan College of Liberal Arts. She specializes in American literature with transatlantic and global perspectives, cultural rhetorics, and intersectional gender studies.

Education:

• Ph.D., English and English Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1993)
• MA, English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1975)
• BA, English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1974)
• Additional studies: University of Maryland (European extension, Italian focus) and Agnes Scott College (English, French, history)

Research Focus: Her scholarship spans American Studies, transatlantic literary networks, cultural rhetorics, public humanities, and gender/sexuality studies with emphasis on cross-cultural teaching practices and diaspora studies.

Publications: Has authored and edited multiple books including Learning Legacies: Archive to Action through Women’s Cross-cultural Teaching (2017) and co-edited Teaching Transatlanticism (2015) and Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776-1920 (2022).