Benjamin J.ÌýRobertson
- Associate Professor
- Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Ben Robertson's research and teaching focus on genre fiction, especially fantasy and weird fiction, and, more recently, on franchise, aesthetic form, and contemporary capitalism . His writing has appeared inÌýConfigurations,ÌýScience Fiction Studies,ÌýAmodern,ÌýThe Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts,ÌýExtrapolation, andÌýMusic, Sound, and the Moving Image, among other places.ÌýHe has published book chapters onÌýWatchmen; music, networks, and terrorism; and imaginary worlds. With Marie-Laure Ryan and Lori Emerson he has editedÌýThe Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. His first book,ÌýNone of this is normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer,Ìýwas published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2018. With Gerry Canavn of Marquette University he edits a book series for Minnesota, Mass Markets: Studies in Franchise Culture. He is currently writing a short book on the recent Lucasfilm/Disney+ showÌýAndor, which will serve as a preliminary study for a longer engagement with the franchise form in a future book project.
Areas of Specialty
- Modern and Contemporary Literature
- Popular Culture, Film, Digital Media