Investing in Realism: An Interview with Bruce Robbins

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Published: May 1, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.16959
Bruce Robbins
Columbia University
Anna Despotopoulou
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Author Biographies
Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His books include Upward Mobility and the Common Good (2007), Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress(1999), The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below (1986), and Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture (1993). He has also taught at Rutgers University, the University of Lausanne, and the University of Geneva along with visiting positions at Harvard, Cornell, and New York universities. He serves on the editorial board of the journal boundary 2.
Anna Despotopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Anna Despotopoulou is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Athens, Greece. Her recent publications include articles on Henry James, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Christina Rossetti, in journals and collections, and two co-edited volumes, Henry James and the Supernatural (with Kimberly Reed, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Reconstructing Pain and Joy: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives (with Chryssoula Lascaratou and Elly Ifantidou, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008).
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