Robyn Warhol-Down

Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English · Ohio State University · company speakers →

Robyn Warhol-Down is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University and has published widely on feminist theory and narrative form. Her books relevant to the panel include Feminisms (edited with Diane Price Herndl; Rutgers UP, 1991, 1997; updated version published as Feminisms Redux in 2009); Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Rutgers UP, 1989); and Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Popular Forms (Ohio State UP, 2003). Her current book project Is Narrative Refusals, a study of the 'unnarratable' in fiction, a subject with which graphic narrative, especially graphic memoirs, often engage. In 2008 she participated in the MLA convention session 'First-Person Graphic,' sponsored by the Division on Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, in which she explored the concept of 'first-person graphic' in Bechdel's Fun Home, and her essay based on this paper is forthcoming in College Literature.

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