Hilary Robinson (scholar)

Hilary Robinson is a British academic and art theorist. She is Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory at Loughborough University's School of Social Sciences and Humanities.[1] She was Dean of the School of Art and Design and a professor at Middlesex University, and previously served as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on the history, theory, and practice of feminist art.[2]

Education and career

Robinson is the daughter of bookbinder Ivor Robinson MBE (28 Oct 1924–19 Feb 2014) and Olive Robinson (née Trask)(5 Apr 1929- ), a teacher. Robinson graduated with a BA Fine Art from Newcastle University. She then received an MA by thesis in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art in London. At the University of Leeds, she obtained her PhD in Art Theory.[3]

In 2005 she became the dean of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she was chosen to be on the board of several museums, including the Warhol Museum and the Mattress Factory Museum. She returned to England in 2012 to become the dean of the School of Art and Design and Professor of Visual Culture at Middlesex University. She joined Loughborough University's School of Arts, English and Drama in 2017 as Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory.[4]

Selected publications and exhibitions

Books
  • Robinson, Hilary and Buszek, Maria Elena, eds. (2019) A Companion to Feminist Art. Wiley Blackwell, Malden MA; Oxford UK. ISBN 9781118929155 [5]
  • Robinson, Hilary, Tobin, Amy, and Gosling, Luci; Reckitt, Hellena, ed. (2018) The Art of Feminism: Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857–2017. Chronicle Books, San Francisco; and Tate Publishing, London. ISBN 9781452169927 [6]
  • Robinson, Hilary, ed. (2015) Feminism-art-theory 1968–2014: an anthology. Wiley Blackwell, Malden MA; Oxford UK. ISBN 9781118360606 [7]
  • Robinson, Hilary (2006) Reading art, reading Irigaray: the politics of art by women. I.B. Tauris, London. ISBN 9781860649530
  • Robinson, Hilary, ed. (2001) Feminism-art-theory : 1968–2000. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 9780631208495

Book sections
  • Robinson, Hilary (2019) ‘Witness it: Activism, Art, and the Feminist Performative Subject’ in Buszek and Robinson (eds): A Companion to Feminist Art, pp. 243-260 [8]
  • Robinson, Hilary (2019) ‘The early work of Griselda Pollock in the context of developing feminist thinking in art history and criticism.’ In Raluca Bibiri (ed) Griselda Pollock: From Feminism to the Concentratory and Beyond. Special issue: Images, Imagini, Images Journal of Visual and Cultural Studies n. 7 2017. Iași: Institutul European, Romania, pp. 19-50 [9]
  • Robinson, Hilary (2012) Pleasure, painting, politics: the three graces – or: why I like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's Self-Portrait With Two Pupils. In: Artistic Production and the Feminist Theory of Art: New Debates III. Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gastiezko Udalak, Victoria-Gastiez, Spain, pp. 306–316. ISBN 9788496845435
  • Harley, Alison and James, Stephanie and Reid, Eileen and Reid, Seona and Robinson, Hilary and Watson, Yvonne (2008) The third space: a paradigm for internationalism. In: The Student Experience in Art and Design Higher Education: Drivers for Change. Jill Rogers Associates Ltd, Cambridge, pp. 167–187. ISBN 0 9547111 7 3
  • Robinson, Hilary and Harley, A. and Reid, E. and Reid, S. and Watson, Y. (2008) The third space: a paradigm for internationalisation. In: The student experience in art and design higher education: drivers for change. Drew, Linda, ed. Jill Rodgers Associates, Cambridge. ISBN 9780954711177
  • Robinson, Hilary (2003) Becoming women: Irigaray, Ireland and visual representation. In: Art, Gender and Nation: Ethnic Landscapes, Myths and Mother-Figures. Bhreathnach-Lynch, Sheila and Cusack, Tricia, eds. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 113–127. ISBN 9780754632252
  • Robinson, Hilary (2000) Whose beauty? Women, art, and inter-subjectivity in Luce Irigaray's writings. In: Beauty Matters. Brand, Peg Zeglin, ed. Indiana University Press, pp. 224–251. ISBN 9780253213754

Exhibitions
  • Robinson, Hilary (2012–13) Feminist and ..., Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA[10]

References
  1. "Renowned expert on feminist art theory joins Loughborough University". Loughborough University. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  2. https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/social-sciences-humanities/at-a-glance/staff/hilary-robinson/
  3. https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/social-sciences-humanities/at-a-glance/staff/hilary-robinson/
  4. https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/social-sciences-humanities/at-a-glance/staff/hilary-robinson/
  5. https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/A+Companion+to+Feminist+Art-p-9781118929155
  6. https://www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/the-art-of-feminism.html
  7. Robinson, Hilary (2015). Feminism Art Theory: An Anthology 1968 – 2014, 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-118-36060-6.
  8. https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/A+Companion+to+Feminist+Art-p-9781118929155
  9. http://www.euroinst.ro/titlu.php?id=1625
  10. "Mattress Factory: ActiveArchive". mattress.org.
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