Department of English

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Margaret Robinson

Associate Professor

Poser-Robinson
Photo credit: Toronto Graffiti artist Poser
Department of English , Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

Email: mrobinson@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1360
Mailing Address: 
Room 3102, McCain Building 6135 University Avenue PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Decolonizing and Indigenizing ways of teaching
  • Representation of Indigenous people
  • Representation of sexual & gender minority people
  • Fanfiction
  • Queer theory
  • Popular culture

Education
BA (Saint Mary’s University)
MA, PhD (University of Toronto)

 

Remarks
Margaret Robinson is a bisexual and two-spirit scholar from Eski'kewaq, Nova Scotia, and a member of the Lennox Island First Nation. Her work examines the Indigenous New Wave, Mi’kmaw oral traditions, and the representation of Indigenous and of sexual and gender minority people in creative works, drawing on critical, postcolonial, and queer theories, intersectionality, and third wave feminism.
 

Selected Publications

  • Robinson M, &Hannam B (in press). Indigenous Strategies of Mi’kmaw Representation in Canadian Film. In: Insiders/Outsiders: The Cultural Politics and Ethics of Indigenous Representation and Participation in Canada’s Media Arts. E Winton & D Claxton (Ed.) Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 
  • Robinson M (in press). Last Night A DJ Saved My Life: Hip Hop, Cultural Continuity and First Nations Suicidality. In: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel. C Marsh & MV Campbell (Ed.) London, UK: Routledge. 
  • Robinson M (2019). Two-Spirit Identity in A Time of Gender Fluidity. Journal of Homosexuality, Special Issue: What’s In A Name? https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2019.1613853
  • Robinson M (2017). Mi’kmaw Stories in Research. In: Visioning a Mi’kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy. M Battiste (Ed.) Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press, 56-68.
  • Robinson M, Sanches M, & MacLeod M (2016). Prevalence and Mental Health Correlates of Illegal Cannabis Use Among a Networked Sample of Bisexual Women in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Bisexuality 16(2), 181-202. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15299716.2016.1147402 
  • Robinson M (2015). The Role of Anxiety in Bisexual Women’s Use of Cannabis. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity 2(2), 138-151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000100
  • Robinson M (2014). A Hope to Lift Both My Spirits: Preventing Bisexual Erasure in First Nations Schools. Journal of Bisexuality 14(1), 18-35.
  • Robinson M (2013). Veganism and Mi'kmaq Legends. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 33(1), 189-196.
  • Robinson M (2013). Polyamory and Monogamy as Strategic Identities. Journal of Bisexuality 13(1), 21-38.

Selected Awards
Teaching & Learning Enhancement Grant. Dalhousie University, 2018
FASS Undergraduate Research Award, 2018
Canada Council For The Arts, Banff Centre Aboriginal Writing Residency, 2015
CIHR Catayst Grant, 2015, 2015
Women’s College Research Institute, 15K Challenge Grant, 2015, 2016
Evidence Exchange Network, 2012, 2013