BIOGRAPHY Here’s the bio that I usually send out upon request, so please feel free to use this:
Robin James is an independent scholar and editor. Her fifth book, Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology, Algorithms, and the Politics of Legitimation, is under contract with Duke University Press, and an expanded second edition of her book Resilience & Melancholy is under contract with The University of Michigan Press. Her previous four books include: The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence (UNC Press, 2023), The Sonic Episteme: acoustic resonance, neoliberalism, & biopolitics (Duke University Press, 2019), Resilience & Melancholy: pop music, feminism, and neoliberalism (Zero, 2015), and The Conjectural Body: gender, race and the philosophy of music (Lexington Books, 2010). Her writing has appeared in venues such as Jezebel, The Guardian, LARB, Real Life, BELT Magazine, The New Inquiry, SoundingOut!, Hypatia, differences, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and elsewhere across the internet. She’s an expert in feminism/gender/race and popular music, pop music and politics, sound studies, electronic dance music studies, and contemporary continental philosophy (especially critical theories of neoliberalism and biopolitics). She is also working on new book projects about the alt-rock-to-alt-right pipeline and a 33 1/3 proposal on The Breeders’ Last Splash.
Here is the latest copy of Robin’s CV, including links to all her publications.
All inquiries not related to Palgrave, including freelance inquiries, should be directed to robinmjames7@gmail.com.
Here is my bio for my day job:
Robin is Senior Editor for Media, Communications/Rhetoric, and Music/Sound/Audio Media Studies at Palgrave Macmillan. She acquires books broadly across Media and Communications, with emphases on rhetoric, Communication Studies, and media theory/philosophy/ethics as well as in Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Music Theory, Popular Music Studies, and Sound Studies.
Send pitches and proposals to robin.james@palgrave-usa.com
HERE is a link to the proposal form we use at Palgrave. The best way to submit a proposal is to attach a completed proposal form and any sample chapters (1-2 if a single-authored book, no samples beyond chapter abstracts for edited collections and Handbooks) to my Palgrave email.
Here is the latest copy of Robin’s resume, and her LinkedIn page.