Eadington Gaming Fellow Michelle Robinson | In Residence March 6-March 19

Michelle Robinson

Special Collections and the Center for Gaming Research are delighted to welcome Eadington Gaming Fellow, Michelle Robinson.

Michelle Robinson is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. She earned a B.A. in English and American Language and Literature from Harvard University and a Master’s of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School before completing the Ph.D. in Boston University's American and New England Studies Program. Her essays have appeared in Studies in the Novel, Modern Drama, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly and elsewhere. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Places for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor and Detection in American Literature, which links the emergence and development of the detective fiction genre to anxieties about interracial sociability in the world of work, and beginning research on a project at the intersection of working-class studies and religious studies, which will use historical case studies to suggest new ways of understanding how communities respond to religious events.

Why she’s coming:
"Using publicity materials, employee newsletters, and other materials from the UNLV Gaming Collection, I will research the impact of the evangelist’s 1978 and 1980 Vegas crusades on the religious ecology of the Strip, with a specific focus on the lived religious experience of working peoples."

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