ANGELA L ROBINSON portrait
  • Pacific Islands Studies Mellon Grant Faculty Lead , School for Cultural and Social Transformation
  • Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
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Publications

  • Angela L. Robinson & Laura Terrance (2022). “The Obligations of Our Ecological Relations: A Challenge for Land Acknowledgments.". Routledge Press. Accepted, 11/07/2022.
  • Angela L. Robinson (2022). “Navigating Home: Relation of Oceania Feminist Solidarity.” . Amerasia Journal. Accepted, 07/01/2022.
  • Angela L. Robinson (2022). “Renewable Plantations: Blackbirding, Biofuel, and Black and Indigenous Eco-Futurity.” . English Language Notes. Accepted, 07/01/2022.
  • Angela L. Robinson & Hokulani Aikau (2021). Feeling Oceans in the Desert: Affective Methods and Pedagogies for Approaching Climate Change. TBD. Accepted, 05/01/2021.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Northern America
  • Oceania

Creative Research

Languages

  • Chuukese, basic.
  • English, fluent.
  • Hawai'i Creole English, fluent.
  • Hawaiian, basic.
  • Spanish, functional.

Presentations

  • “Renewable Plantations: Blackbirding, Biofuel, and Black and Indigenous Environmental Justice," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, May 12-14, Virtual. Conference Paper, Accepted, 02/06/2023.
  • “Planetary Poetics and Climate Change,” Commentator at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, November 3-6, New Orleans, LA. Panel, Presented, 11/05/2022.
  • “The Obligations of Our Ecological Relations: A Challenge for Land Acknowledgments,” Conference Speaker for Knowing Life: The Ethics of Multispecies Epistemologies. University of California, Irvine, November 3-5, Virtual. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/2022.
  • “Dispossession: Oceania,” Symposium Panelist for Plantation After/Lives: Roots, Routes, and Relations. University of Texas, Austin, April 29, Virtual. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/29/2022.
  • “Interventions in Pacific Islands Studies and Trans-Pacific Studies,” Roundtable presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, October 11-14, Virtual. Panel, Presented, 10/14/2021.
  • “Remembering Our Bones: The Limits of Settler Affect & Memory in Cat Ruka’s Playing Savage,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, June 14-21, Virtual. Conference Paper, Presented, 06/16/2021.
  • “Climate Justice in Oceania: Affective Regimes & Indigenous Performance.” University of Southern California, February 23, Virtual. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/23/2021.