EUGENE
ROBINSON
LECTURER, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
FILM AND MEDIA
Dr. Eugene "Gene" Robinson has been teaching at the University
of Maryland since 1975. He was originally in the Radio, Television, Film
Department where he introduced the seminal courses in advertising criticism
and African-American films.
His award-winning film Tar Baby was selected
for exhibition abroad by the USIA and included in the Black Filmmakers Exhibit
at the St.Louis Art Museum. He scripted the documentary film The Class of
'52 under a grant from Gallaudet University.
Additionally, he has completed a script for the documentary Threads:/ Malkia, Portrait of the Artist. His essay
"Television Advertising and Its Impact on Black America" was published
bythe National Urban League in The State
of Black America, and his article "What is Madison Avenue Telling
Us?" appeared in Black Film Review.
Dr. Robinson is a contributor to the Broadcast Pioneers Collection at
the National Association of Broadcasters.
His collaboration with Willis Conover:/
Music USA is in the collection of the NAB.
He is currently working on the Rosebud
Project and also researching and writing a book on Gypsy culture.
In addition to having been an Adjunct Professor at Gallaudet University,
Dr. Robinson was one of the original members of the National
Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. He has lectured
widely on Latin and Third World cinemas and on advertising
and culture. He is the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Comparative Literature at theUniversity
of Maryland, College Park.
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