Faculty & Staff

Jane Robinett
Ph.D., 20th Century Am

erican Literature, University of Notre Dame

Dr. Robinett's teaching and research interests include developmental and advanced composition, narrative and memoir, technical writing, technology and ethics, multicultural literature, Latin American and American literature, among others. Her articles, in both English and Spanish, on literature and technology, ethnic literatures, contemporary Latin American fiction, computers and distance teaching and cyberethics have been published and anthologized in such places as El Nuevo Mundo de la Filosofia y la Tecnologia (Barcelona), James Wright: The Heart of the Light (Ann Arbor), The Journal of Social and Biological Structures, Computing Research News, Olmeteca, El Otro Laberinto (Costa Rica), and Modern Fiction Studies. Among her publications are A Sourcebook On Computers and Ethics, and This Rough Magic: Technology in Latin American Fiction. She also translated and co-edited the work of a Dominican poet in Desde Desconsuelo a compromiso/ From Desolation to Compromise: A bilingual anthology of the Poetry of Aida Cartegena Portalatin. Her publications include "Looking for Roots: Curandera and Shamanic Practices in Southwestern Fiction," in Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, Spring 2003, “Listening All the Way Home: Structure and Theme in Rudy Wiebe’s Sweeter Than All the World,” Conrad Grebel Review, July, 2004 and "Medical Narratives in Empirical Frameworks.” Academic Exchange Quarterly, Fall 2005.

Her article, “The Narrative Structure of Traumatic Experience,” explores the ways in which the structure of literature written by combat soldiers reflects their traumatic experiences and helps to determine the narrative structures they use. It appeared in Literature and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Press, in spring, 2008. She recently completed a paper on the public rhetoric of H.H. the Dalai Lama and the retorical traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and presented her work at the National Communications Association Conference in San Francisco in November, 2010. The paper, "A Rhetoric of Non-Violence: The Dalai Lama’s 1989 Nobel Prize Lecture," will be published in Advances in the History of Rhetoric, 2011.

In 1993, she was a Fulbright lecturer in the graduate program at the University of Costa Rica. She lived and taught for six years in England and Spain. She has received the Alumni Association's Outstanding Teacher Award at SDSU in 1995 and was chosen Most Influential Professor at SDSU's Imperial Valley Campus in 1999.