Job title:
ARC Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate at UC Berkeley in English
Bio/CV:
Jared Robinson is a poet and critic from Indianapolis, Indiana. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the department of English, where his work has been supported by the Arts Research Center and the Black Studies Collaboratory. He writes and thinks about autobiography, his own and those penned by others, across multiple mediums. He is currently at work on a dissertation tentatively titled: “To Save My Own Life”: The Injunction to Truth in African American Autobiography, 1785-1865.
Jared was an ARC Fellow in Fall & Spring 2020 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.