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...varied selection, the multiplicity of subjects and titles, that presents a clearer picture of Robertson. Her academic world has combined a new Harvard discipline, women's studies, with the traditional fields of history and literature in a combined concentration. She has placed the Emersons and Whitmans alongside feminist theorists like Betty Friedan and Simone de Beauvoir under the rubric of her field...
...world that Robertson has created for herself finds expression in the written and spoken word, in the continual application of analysis and, in many cases, re-analysis. As a member of Harvard's first graduating Women's Studies class, Robertson, fittingly, brings both a trademark skepticism and strong sense of intellectual independence to her studies...
Though an avid reader--Robertson says she enjoys the unabridged version of Clarissa, Samuel Richardson's 1500-page novel-her friends and professors note that she is far from conventionally bookish. Rather, she combines an academic bent with social activism and a piercing, ironic...
...convinced that everyone hates Clarissa because the abridged version cuts out the best parts, the sense that Clarissa is a witty person," Robertson says...
...important to Robertson, who applies her own to all aspects of her world. It can be seen in her academic endeavors--her senior thesis on Lizzie Borden earned her a Hoopes prize, as well as the History and Literature award--as well as in her approach to personal, cultural and philosophical issues...