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Dr. Ira Robinson, PhD.

Professor, Religion
Chair & Director of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies


Dr. Ira Robinson, PhD.
Office: S-FA 101  
FA Annex,
2060 Mackay
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 2065
Email: ira.robinson@concordia.ca

Short CV

Ira Robinson is Professor of Judaic studies in the Department of Religion of Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. He has taught at Concordia University since 1979 and served as the Chair of the Department of Religion. He also serves as Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies and Director of the Concordia University Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies. Dr. Robinson is the President of the Canadian Society for Jewish Studies, past President of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies (formerly the Canadian jewish Historical Society) and past President of the Jewish Public Library of Montreal. Dr. Robinson was awarded the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award by the Association of Canadian Jewish Studies in recognition of his lifelong contribution to the study of Canadian Jewry. Dr. Robinson was recently inducted to the Provost's Circle of Distinction

Research interests

Canadian Judaism
Orthodox Judaism in North America
Hasidism
Judaism and Science
Jewish Mysticism

Traditions

Judaism


Teaching activities

Books 

    Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Stanford University Press, July 2022)

    Editor, Middlemarch by George Eliot (Norton Critical Editions, 2023)

Editorial Work 

   Co-editor, "Undisciplining Victorian Studies." Special Issue of Victorian Studies 62, no. 3 (Spring 2020)

Essays and Other Writing

Reviews


  


Research activities

History, Memory, and Jewish Identity
Photo credit: Academic Studies Press

Selected publications

Keynotes, Invited Talks, and Recent Presentations


  • Roundtable Panelist, How Victorianists (Might) Talk About Race: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Rutgers and Berkeley Center for British Studies, February 2022
  • Speaker, First Book Workshop, North American Victorian Studies Association, February 2022 
  • Keynote Speaker, UW Symposium on the 150th Anniversary of Middlemarch, May 2021
  • Invited Speaker at NYU 19thC Group, October 2020
  • Invited Speaker at The Yale 18th and 19th C Colloquium, October 2020 
  • Invited Speaker, "Topping Statues: Teaching Race and Victorian Lit in 2020." Virtual Dickens Universe, July 2020
  • "Fin de Sex at the Fin de Siècle? The Recursions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality." MLA 2020
  • “Those Other Victorians.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), November 2019 
  • “Race in/and Victorian Studies.” Dickens Universe, July 2019 
  • “Expanding the Field.” Northeast Victorian Studies Association Conference (NVSA), April 2019
  • “Victorian Poetry and Poetics: Media, Form, Empire.” Poetry Matters, McGill University, March 2019
  • “Critical Race Theory and New Directions in Victorian Studies.” MLA, January 2019


Conference Presentations

Keynotes, Invited Talks, and Recent Presentations


  • Roundtable Panelist, How Victorianists (Might) Talk About Race: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Rutgers and Berkeley Center for British Studies, February 2022
  • Speaker, First Book Workshop, North American Victorian Studies Association, February 2022 
  • Keynote Speaker, UW Symposium on the 150th Anniversary of Middlemarch, May 2021
  • Invited Speaker at NYU 19thC Group, October 2020
  • Invited Speaker at The Yale 18th and 19th C Colloquium, October 2020 
  • Invited Speaker, "Topping Statues: Teaching Race and Victorian Lit in 2020." Virtual Dickens Universe, July 2020
  • "Fin de Sex at the Fin de Siècle? The Recursions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality." MLA 2020
  • “Those Other Victorians.” North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), November 2019 
  • “Race in/and Victorian Studies.” Dickens Universe, July 2019 
  • “Expanding the Field.” Northeast Victorian Studies Association Conference (NVSA), April 2019
  • “Victorian Poetry and Poetics: Media, Form, Empire.” Poetry Matters, McGill University, March 2019
  • “Critical Race Theory and New Directions in Victorian Studies.” MLA, January 2019

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