Robin Taylor Rogers is a graduate student in English at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa. She has taught Honors English II, Composition I and II (Computer-Assisted Instruction), and Professional Writing at USF and Hillsborough Community College.

Her areas of interest are early American literature, nineteenth-century American literature, women’s literature, Southern literature, and captivity narratives.

Presentations include “The Confidence Woman and Other ‘Good Frauds,’” at Northeast Modern Language Association (Hartford, CT, March 30, 2001), and “Have Passport, Will Travel: Exploitation and Commercialization in Travel Narratives,” at The Art History Association and the USF Art Department and Graphicstudio’s Eighth Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium (Tampa, FL, March 24, 2000).

She has served as Associate Editor of Victorian Periodicals Review since 1999 and was President of the English Graduate Student Association, a member of the Composition I and II Essay Awards Committee, and a member of the English Graduate Committee, from 1999-2000.

Honors and awards include a University Graduate Fellowship (1999-2000) and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Graduate Scholarship (1999).