Morgan Robinson

Morgan Robinson is a Gender Studies major, minoring in Literature and Sociology. She will be presenting her senior project entitled ”Always Already Raped: Whiteness and Captive Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to the Manson Family.” The project focuses on the false construction of white womanhood as a passive, vulnerable identity through a broad analysis of literature related to whiteness, violence, and the captivity narrative genre. The project constructs a genealogy beginning with Mary Rowlandson’s 1682 captivity narrative and concluding with Ottessa Moshfegh’s modern novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018). Morgan will be graduating in May and continuing her research and education at the graduate level as an English PhD student at the University of Maryland.