Jane Robbins Mize

Doctoral Candidate, English
PPEH Graduate Fellow
2020 - 2021
Jane Robbins Mize is a poet, literary scholar, and experimental publisher in Philadelphia. She is currently a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and material culture. Her dissertation examines the intersections of colonialism, industrialism, and the cultural imagination of water in the early-twentieth-century United States. Jane Robbins previously worked as an assistant editor at PublicAffairs Books and as an editorial intern at The Paris Review and Prestel Publishing. She grew up in Athens, Georgia and received her BA in English and Latin from the University of Texas at Austin.