Robbins, Bruce

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ROBBINS, Bruce

ROBBINS, Bruce. American, b. 1949. Genres: Sociology. Career: University of Geneva, Switzerland, assistant, 1976-81; University of Lausanne, Switzerland, maitre-assistant, 1981-83; University Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, professor of English, 1984-2000, co-editor of Social Text, 1988-2000. Publications: The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below, 1986; Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture, 1993; Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, 1999. EDITOR: Intellectuals: Aesthetics, Politics, Academics, 1990; The Phantom Public Sphere, 1993; (with P. Cheah) Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation, 1998. Address: 165 Hudson St., 4B, New York, NY 10013, U.S.A. On- line address: brobbins@interport.net

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