Hello! I’m Robin.

I am a PhD student studying French Linguistics with a concentration in Romance Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I have completed minors in Queer Studies, Gender and Women Studies, European Union Studies, and Linguistic Anthropology. I have taught courses on French language, culture studies, linguistics, queer studies, and feminist studies.

I use she/her pronouns.

My research delineates relationships of power between identities, multilingualism, and community organization in Montréal, Québec after the Quiet Revolution (1960-1966). I use a transdisciplinary analytical lens informed by queer theory and feminist linguistic anthropology to explore language in mainstream media that imbricated (homo)sexuality within the new Québec of the1970s which was ostensibly more secular, liberal, and modern. This corpus draws on newspapers, literature, theatrical productions, and political manifestos centering cultural re/production of (homo)sexuality in both French and English, the dominant languages of Québec.

I am grateful for the financial support for my dissertation from the American Council for Quebec Studies, l’Association internationale des études québécoises, and the International Council for Canadian Studies/Conseil internationale des études canadiennes.