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Robin Bartram

Robin Bartram

Robin Bartram is an assistant professor of sociology at Tulane University. Her research focuses on housing and inequality, and she has published articles on how built environments reproduce gendered norms in various contexts. icon

Emily Dickinson, “The Greatest Freak of Them All”?

By Japonica Brown-Saracino & Robin Bartram

Does viewing Emily Dickinson as unusual actually help us understand the poet or her work better?

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