Professor. Writer.
Motivator.
Robin Brooks, PhD is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the founder of AcademicShift, LLC. Her current research examines death, mortality, and Black life writing in the United States. Broader research and teaching interests include contemporary literature and culture, African Diaspora studies, health humanities, and working-class studies.
"I believe using our privileges to help others brings us a step closer to eliminating inequalities."
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Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women’s Fiction
As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women’s cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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Research Interests
Dr. Brooks’s scholarship focuses on African American and Anglophone Caribbean communities with particular attention to the various ways Black writers, artists, and scholars offer new possibilities for charting the “political” in everyday experiences. Examining various modes of resistance to different forms of oppression, her research forwards conversations in: