David Robinson

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Robinson, David M. (day/month/1947– )

At Oregon State University, Robinson is Professor of English, Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Director of American Studies, Director of the Center for the Humanities.

He received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, 1970; his M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, 1972; and his M.A., 1973, and Ph. D., 1976, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Robinson, a Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, was a Fulbright Guest Professor, University of Heidelberg, 1984-85.

Today, Robinson lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with . . . .

Selected Works

Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism (Cornell University Press, 2004)

The Political Emerson: Essential Writings on Politics and Social Reform (Beacon Press, 2004)

The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings (Beacon Press, 2003)

World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor (University Press of Kentucky, 1998)

Emerson and the Conduct of Life (Cambridge University Press, 1993)

The Unitarians and the Universalists (Greenwood Press, 1985)

William Ellery Channing: Selected Writings (Paulist Press, 1985)

Apostle of Culture: Emerson as Preacher and Lecturer (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982)

He has also contributed essays to The Oxford Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson; The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson; Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts and other works.

Robinson has spoken at events connected with the Emerson Bicentennial in 2003, including the Massachusetts Historical Society's conference, "Spires of Form and Emerson and the Examined Life" at Faneuil Hall in Boston.