• Ph D, English Literature, University of Alberta, 2013
• MA, English Literature, Ohio State University, 2006
• BA, English and Women's Studies, Ohio State University, 1991

• Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, (2025 - 2025)
• Kanner Fellowship in British Studies, UCLA Humanities Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, (2023 - 2024)
• Franklin Research Grants, American Philosophical Society

• Utopia/Dystopia Symposium Pedagogy Workshop, Center for Teaching and Learning, (2023 - 2023)
• Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, South Dakota Humanities Council, (2022 - 2022)
• Frankenstein 200!, South Dakota Humanities Council, (2018 - 2018)
• Frankenstein 200!, Keats-Shelley Association of American & Byron Association of America, (2017 - 2018)
• College of Arts & Sciences Curriculum Transformation Grant, College Committee on Diversity in the Curriculum, (2016 - 2016)
• Utopia/Dystopia Symposium, South Dakota Humanities Council

Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.

• Robertson, Lisa Ann. Review of Graham Davidson, The Intelligible Ode: Intimations of Paradise (Lutterworth P), 2023). Review 19, 2024.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. "Time + Space": Coleridge's Phenomenological Organicism. In The Coleridge Bulletin, editors Jeffrey Barbeau, 3-19. Vol. New Series 62, Iss. Summer Bridgewater, Somerset: The Friends of Coleridge, 2024.
• . Review of Richard C. Sha and Joel Faflak, Romanticism and Consciousness, Revisited (Edinburgh UP, 2022)., Editors Jacob Risinger, Charles W. Mahoney, 516-523. Vol. 54, Iss. 4 Chicago, IL: The Wordsworth Circle, 2023. (DOI: 10.1086/727215)
• . “Kindred forms": Erasmus Darwin’s Posthuman Ethics of Relationality, 551-566. Vol. 32, Iss. 5/6 Abingdon, Oxfordshire: European Romantic Review, 2021.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. Thomas Beddoes' Democratic Toys., Editors Tim Fulford and Dahlia Porter. Liverpool: Essays in Romanticism, 2019.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. Enacting the Absolute: Subject-Object Relations in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Theory of Knowledge. In A History of Distributed Cognition Vol. 3: From the Enlightenment to Romanticism, editors George Rousseau, Mike Wheeler, and Miranda Anderson. Vol. 3 Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2019.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. Review of Andrew Bennett, ed., William Wordsworth in Context, Cambridge UP, 2015 & Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson, ed., The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth, Oxford UP, 2015., Editors William Brewer, 96-102. Vol. 29, Iss. 1 European Romantic Review, 2018.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. Review of Elizabeth A. Bohls. Slavery and the Politics of Place: Representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1770-1883. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014.., Editors Richard Berkeley, 111-117. Vol. 1, Iss. 2 Paris: Journal of Romanticism, 2018.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. Review of Jan Golinski, The Experimental Self: Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science, Chicago UP, 2016., Editors Paul Westover, 909-911. Vol. 56, Iss. 4 Cambridge: Journal of British Studies, 2017.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. “Hints & Speculation on Education”: Tom Wedgwood’s Materialist Pedagogy. In Romantic Education: Romantic Pedagogies and New Approaches to Teaching Romanticism, editors Suzanne L. Barnett and Katherine Bennett Gustafson. Iss. May 2016 Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons, 2016.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. Composite review of Sandy, Mark. Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Vol. 42, Iss. 2 Nineteenth Century Prose , 2015.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. “Swallowed Up In Impression”: Humphry Davy’s Materialist Theory of Embodied Transcendence and William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”, 591-614. Vol. 26, Iss. 5 European Romantic Review, 2015. (DOI: 10.1080/10509585.2015.1070343)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. Review of Day, Aidan. Romanticism. 2nd ed., 809-810. Vol. 19, Iss. 6 European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 2014.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. Soulful Sensorium: The Body in British Romantic Brain Science., Editors Tiziana Morosetti and Norbert Lennartz, 17-28. Vol. 3, Iss. 1 La Questione Romantica: Rivista Interdisciplinare di Studi Romantici, 2011.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. Review of Webster, Suzanne E. Body and Soul in Coleridge’s Notebooks, 1827-1834: “What is Life?”, 999-1000. Vol. 16, Iss. 7 European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 2011.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. ‘Universal Thump’: The Redemptive Epistemology of Touch in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, 5-20. Vol. 12, Iss. 2
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. The Vicissitudes of Video Games, 8-13. Vol. 8, Iss. 3 Edmonton, AB: Fifty3: Journal of Contemporary Visual Culture, 2007.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. "Sensible" Slavery: Pleasure, Pain, and the Body in Matthew Lewis’ Journal of a West India Slave Proprietor, 220-37. Vol. 29, Iss. 2 Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism , 2007.
• Robertson, Lisa Ann. Embodied Organicism: Cognition, Aesthetics, and Ethics in British Romantic Literature and Science. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

• Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2024
• Richard and Sharon Cutler Award In Liberal Arts - Humanites, University of South Dakota, 2024
• Kanner Fellow in British Studies, UCLA - William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2023
• Monsignor James Doyle Humanities Teaching Award, University of South Dakota, 2023
• Best Article Award 2021, European Romantic Review, 2022
• Belbas-Larsen Teaching Award, University of South Dakota, 2020
• Nomination - Belbas-Larsen Teaching Award, University of South Dakota, 2020
• Nomination - Belbas-Larsen Teaching Award, University of South Dakota, 2019
• Best Article Award 2015, European Romantic Review, 2016
• Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Scholar Grant, University of Edinburgh, 2015

• Robertson, Lisa Ann, Piper, Katie, and Sazama, Taya, Pedagogy as Scientific Practice: Children’s Literature. Presented at the 33rd Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference: Transformationw, Sioux Falls, SD. (May 2025)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, Savarese, John, Manly, Susan, Cole, Sara, and , Barbauld, Empiricism, and Experiment. Presented at the Anna Letitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent, York, UK. (January 2025)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, , , and , Scientific Siblings: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and John Aikin, Jr.. Presented at the 2024 NASSR / ICR Joint Annual Conference: Romantic Insurrections / Counter-Insurrections, Washington, DC. (August 16, 2024)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, , , and , Response to Elizabeth Oldfather's "The Space Flowers Can Open Endlessly Into": Mind-Wandering and Poetic Consciousness and John Savarese's Radical Antiquarianism and Gothic Materialism. Presented at the NASSR Science, Medicine, and Psychology Caucus Seminar, Washington, DC. (August 15, 2024)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, Derbyshire, Nancy, Oldfather, Elizabeth, Weiler, Christina, and Savarese, John, Romantic Minds and Environments. Presented at the NASSR/BARS Joint Conference 2022: New Romanticisms, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. (August 2022)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, Embodied Consciousness. Presented at the Coleridge Summer Conference 2022, Kilve, Bridgwater, England. (July 2022)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, English, Colleen, Harris, Renee, and Mulligan, John, She Thinks for Herself: Exploring Women’s Participation in the Mind-Matter Debates. Presented at the NASSR Roundtable: Women in Science, Online. (June 28, 2021)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, Savarese, John, Harris, Renee, and Watkins, Adam E., “Internal Feelings of the Mind”: Entanglements of Affect and Cognition in Hartley’s Observations on Man. Presented at the NASSR 27th Annual Conference: Romantic Elements, Chicago, IL. (August 08, 2019)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, Porter, Dahlia, Trop, Gabriel, Sha, Richard C., and Faflak, Joel, ‘Born in Elemental Strife’: Vitality and Cognition in Erasmus Darwin’s Theory of Embodied Organicism. Presented at the NASSR Pre-Conference Seminar The Elemental: Romantic Science, Literature, Psychoanalysis, Chicago, IL. (August 07, 2019)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, Sha, Richard, Savarese, John, Kramnick, Jon, and Walker, Leila , Embodied Cognition and the Romantic Structures of Experience. Presented at the MLA 2019, Chicago, IL. (January 05, 2019)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, At the Border of Knowledge, or, Babies in the Scientific Imagination. Presented at the ICR: 2017 Romantic (In) Securty, El Paso, TX. (October 2017)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, The Life of the Body is the Life of the Mind: Erasmus Darwin’s Materialist Theory of Cognition. Presented at the NASSR 2017 Conference : Romantic Life, Ottawa, ON. (August 2017)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, “‘From the Imbecility of Children’: Infants in the Scientific Imagination”. Presented at the Bicentennial Conference “Robert Southey and Romantic-era Literature, Culture, and Science: 1797, 1817, 2017”, Bristol, England. (April 12, 2017)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, Satanic Seduction: Zofloya and the Infernal Marriage Plot. Presented at the ICR 2016: The Dark Side of Romanticism, Colorado Springs, Colorado. (October 20, 2016)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, Wordsworth’s Discontented Senses: Disappointment and the Embodied Imagination. Presented at the NASSR 2016 Conference : Romanticism and its Discontents, Berkely, CA. (August 11, 2016)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, Enacting the Absolute: Subject-Object Relations in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Theory of Mind. Presented at the A History of Distributed Cognition, Workshop 3—From the Enlightenment to Romanticism, Edinburgh, Scotland. (June 2015)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, The Enactive Imagination: William Wordsworth's Embodied Mind,. Presented at the Romantic Organizations: NASSR 22nd Annual Conference, Washington, DC. (July 12, 2014)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, The Power of Modifying: Organic Theories of Mind in British Romanticism. Presented at the Romantic Research Group, Romanticism & Evolution Conference, London ON. (May 13, 2011)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, Soulful Sensorium: The Body in Early British Romantic Brain Science. Presented at the Midwest Conference on British Studies, 56th Annual Conference, Cleveland OH. (October 08, 2010)
• Robertson, Lisa Ann, “‘Sensible’ Slavery: Pleasure, Pain and the Body in Matthew Lewis’ Journal of a West India Slave Proprietor. Presented at the Folklore Student Association Conference, Columbus, OH. (May 20, 2006)