Publications

Forthcoming
Bernstein, Robin. “Signposts on the Road Less Taken: John Newton Hyde’s Anti-Racist Illustrations of African American Children.” In The Child’s Turn: Childhood in Text and Image in the Nineteenth-Century United States, edited by Patricia Crain and Caroline F. Sloat. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, Forthcoming.
2021
Bernstein, Robin. “Being Alive Together: Stephen Sondheim, Omicron, and the Power of Theater.” Harvard Magazine, 2021. Publisher's Version
Bernstein, Robin. “Can You Reverse a Defeatist Habit that Sabotages Your Writing?Chronicle of Higher Education, 2021. Publisher's Version
2020
Bernstein, Robin. “Performance.” In Keywords for Children’s Literature and Culture, 2nd Edition, 139-142. New York University Press, 2020.
Bernstein, Robin. ““‘You Do It!’: Going-to-Bed Books and the Scripts of Children’s Literature”.” PMLA 135, no. 5 (2020): 877-894.
2018
Bernstein, Robin. ““Learning to See Black Dolls/Apprendre à voir les poupées noires".” In Black Dolls: The Deborah Neff Collection/Black Dolls, La Collection Deborah Neff, pp. 51-55 (French) and 252-255 (English). Paris, France: La Maison Rouge and Fage, 2018.
Bernstein, Robin. “"Jane Clark: A Newly Available Slave Narrative".” Common-Place: The Journal of Early American Life 18, no. 1 (2018). Publisher's Version
2017
Bernstein, Robin. “How to Talk to Famous Professors.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017. Publisher's Version
Bernstein, Robin. “Banish the Smarm.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017, LXIII, 40, 29-30. Publisher's Version
Bernstein, Robin. “You are Not a Public Utility.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017, LXIII, 36. Publisher's Version
Bernstein, Robin. “The Art of "No".” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017, LXIII, 32, 40. Publisher's Version
Bernstein, Robin. “Let Black Kids Just Be Kids.” New York Times, 2017, A23. Publisher's Version
Bernstein, Robin. “'I’m very happy to be in the reality-based community’: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Digital Photography, and George W. Bush.” American Literature 89, no. 1 (2017): 121-154.
2016
Bernstein, Robin. “The Impact of Two Decades’ Queer Theatre Scholarship: A Personal Narrative.” Theatre Topics 26, no. 1 (2016): 38-39.
2013
Bernstein, Robin. “Review of Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure by Sara Warner.” Theatre Journal, 2013.
Bernstein, Robin. “Toys are Good for Us: Why We Should Embrace the Historical Integration of Children’s Literature, Material Culture, and Play.” Children's Literature Association Quarterly 38, no. 4 (2013): 458-463.
Bernstein, Robin. “Childhood as Performance.” In The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies in the Humanities, edited by Anna Mae Duane, 203-212. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2013.
Bernstein, Robin. “Signposts on the Road Less Taken: John Newton Hyde’s Anti-Racist Illustrations of African American Children.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 1, no. 1 (2013): 97-119.
2012
Bernstein, Robin. “‘A Wonderful Defense of Slavery’?: Joel Chandler Harris’s Reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” "Uncle Tom's Cabin in the National Era," Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, http://nationalera.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/a-wonderful-defense-of-slavery/, 2012.

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