Aileen Robinson
Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies
Bio
Dr. Robinson received an Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama from Northwestern University and her A.B. in Literature from Harvard University. She conducted archival research in Britain and the United States supported through an SSRC International Dissertation Fellowship and an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. She served as a Mellon Fellow in the Scholars in the Humanities program for 2016-2018 at Stanford University.
Academic Appointments
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Assistant Professor, Theater and Performance Studies
Administrative Appointments
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The Annenberg Faculty Fellow, School of the Humanities and Sciences (2020 - 2022)
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Faculty Fellow, AAAS (2020 - 2023)
Program Affiliations
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Science, Technology and Society
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Aileen K. Robinson is a historian of performance and technology with specializations in 18th and 19th century British theatre and Black cultural performances. Working across the history of science, technology, and theatre, Robinson explores how systems of knowledge, connected to the body and the object, overlapped to produce practices of research, dissemination, and valuation.
Robinson's current book manuscript explores intersections between technological, scientific, and theatrical knowledge in early nineteenth-century science museums. She investigates how theatrical performances and magic shows drew upon technological innovations and formed unique methods for disseminating scientific knowledge. She teaches across the history of science and performance, magic and technology, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century stagecraft, and 19th and 20th-century Black artistic production.
2024-25 Courses
- Black Artistry
ARTSINST 153P, CSRE 153P, TAPS 153P, TAPS 353P (Aut) - Ethical STEM: Race, Justice, and Embodied Practice
ARTSINST 151C, CSRE 151C, ETHICSOC 151C, STS 51D, SYMSYS 151D, TAPS 151D (Win) - Introduction to Theater and Performance Studies
TAPS 1 (Win) - Objects and Things: Theater, Performance, and Material Culture
TAPS 322 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (1)
- Directed Reading
TAPS 390 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Directed Reading
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Black Artistry: Strategies of Performance in the Black Diaspora
AFRICAAM 153P, CSRE 153P, TAPS 153P, TAPS 353P (Win) - Black Magic: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Performance Cultures
AFRICAAM 154G, AFRICAAM 254G, CSRE 154D, FEMGEN 154G, TAPS 154G, TAPS 354G (Spr) - Ethical STEM: Race, Justice, and Embodied Practice
AFRICAAM 151, ARTSINST 151C, CSRE 151C, ETHICSOC 151C, STS 51D, SYMSYS 151D, TAPS 151D (Win) - Introduction to Theater and Performance Studies
TAPS 1 (Spr) - Introduction to the Arts: Black Artistry
ARTSINST 101 (Win)
2022-23 Courses
- Concepts of Modernity II: Performing Identities
MTL 334B (Spr) - Ethical STEM: Race, Justice, and Embodied Practice
AFRICAAM 151, ARTSINST 151C, CSRE 151C, STS 51D, SYMSYS 151D, TAPS 151D (Win) - Introduction to Theater and Performance Studies
TAPS 1 (Spr) - Performing Identities
FEMGEN 314, TAPS 314 (Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Black Magic: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Performance Cultures
AFRICAAM 154G, AFRICAAM 254G, CSRE 154D, FEMGEN 154G, TAPS 154G, TAPS 354G (Spr) - Ethical STEM: Race, Justice, and Embodied Practice
CSRE 151C, STS 51D, SYMSYS 151D, TAPS 151D (Win) - Introduction to Theater and Performance Studies
TAPS 1 (Spr) - Introduction to the Arts: Think, Make, Create
ARTSINST 101, TAPS 101T (Win)
- Black Artistry: Strategies of Performance in the Black Diaspora
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Marina Johnson, Tyrik LaCruise -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Westley Montgomery -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Zoe Ryu -
Doctoral (Program)
Emily Waters