Bruce Robbins

Biography

Bruce Robbins is an American literary scholar, author and an academic. He is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Robbins's research interests include book projects on the history of literary representations of atrocity and the connections between criticism and politics, along with cosmopolitanism, intellectuals, nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, and literary and cultural theory. He has authored several books including The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below, Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, and The Beneficiary. He has also directed two documentaries, Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists and What Kind of Jew Is Shlomo Sand?. Robbins worked as co-editor of the journal Social Text from 1991 until 2000 and is editor-in-chief of the online journal politicsslashletters.org.

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