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Dr. Carol L. Robinson

Carol Robinson, Ph.D.

Department of English
Professor
Campus:
Trumbull
Office Location:
Classroom Building
Contact Information
Email:
clrobins@kent.edu
Phone:
330-675-8907
Personal Website:
http://www.cyberspacerobinson.org/

Biography

Dr. Carol L. Robinson teaches both English and MDJ courses: online, on-land, and as hybrid (online and on-land). Her creative work includes production, writing, and directing of staged plays, as well as documentary films, and she is a retired professional children's storyteller. She does research on medievalism, video games, film, adaptation theory, Deaf culture, and gestural communication (both medieval and contemporary). She has written about Charles Chaplin, Deaf playwright Willy Conley, Deaf poet and storyteller Peter Cook, Flying Words Project, World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings and adapted media (films and video games), and Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath. In 2012, she premiered her first full-length documentary film, Listening to You, Listening to Me, Listening to Every Man, Woman and Child: A Neomedieval, Deaf/Hearing, Community Theatre Experience. Dr. Robinson is a Faculty Affiliate for Women's Studies and LGBTQ Studies.

 

Selected List of Courses Taught

  • MDJ 10009  Elements of Film, TV, and Animation
  • MDJ 20001  Media, Power and Culture
  • ENG 25001  Literature in English I
  • ENG 30050  Writing and Rhetoric in a Digital Age
  • ENG 30053  Writing for Video Games
  • ENG 30072  Editing and Publishing I
  • ENG 34001  Medieval Literature
  • ENG 36005  Film and Narrative

Video Links

  • http://www.cyberspacerobinson.org
  • http://trumbull-satellite.com
  • https://houndingproductions.org/everyone/

Education

Ph.D. English, University of Georgia M.A. English, University of Georgia B.A. English Composition, Beloit College

Publications

  • Co-Producer and Assistant Director. See No Beast, Hear No Beast, Speak No Beast. Kent Trumbull Theatre. Kent State University at Trumbull (Champion, OH: October, 2019). Performances being done in American Sign Language and spoken English, simultaneous
  • “Go Ask Alisoun: Geoffrey Chaucer and Deafland—Deafness as Authority.” Eds. Candace Barrington, Jonathan Hsy and Laura Doyle. Literature Compass: June, 2018.
  • Lead Playwright and Director. ANOTHER Christmas Carol. Kent Trumbull Theatre. Kent State University at Trumbull (Champion, OH: December, 2017). Performances done in American Sign Language and spoken English, simultaneously.
  • “Envisioning the Good, the Beautiful, and the Ugly: American Deaf Adaptation and Appropriation of British Medieval Works.” Gwen to the Max: A Festschrift for Gwendolyn Morgan. The Year’s Work in Medievalism. Eds. M.J. Toswell, E.L. Risden, Jesse G. Swan
  • “Electronic Tolkien: Characterization in Film and Video Games.” Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture. Ed. Gail Ashton. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015) : 124-133.
  • "Gesture." Medievalism: Key Critical Terms (Eds. Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz, Boydell & Brewer, 2014)
  • "The Song Remains the Same: Crossing Intersections to Create an Ethical World via an Adaptation of Everyman for Everyone."(with Daniel-Raymond Nadon and Nancy M. Resh) Studies in Medievalism XXI: Ethics and Medievalism (Ed. Karl Fugelso, 2014)
  • "The Quest for a Deaf Lesbian Dwarf (or Anyone Else that Might Have Been Excluded) in Medievalist Video Games: A Response to Karl Fugelso's Manifesto." The Year's Work in Medievalism. Special Issue: Medievalism NOW. (Eds. Karl Fugelso, E.L. Risden, and
  • "Neomedievalism Unplugged." (with Pamela Clements) Studies in Medievalism XXI: Corporate Medievalism (Ed. Karl Fugelso, 2013)
  • “The Cyberpunk Road away from Middle-earth toward Virtual Atonement.” The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre. Ed. Helen Young. (Cambria, 2015) : 133-154.

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