2023-11-30 04:40:27
Trina Robbins, Honorary Doctor of Bordeaux Montaigne University
Updated November 28, 2023
Because Bordeaux Montaigne University is the Bordeaux university specializing in the Arts, it wanted to honor Trina Robbins. HASAmerican comic strip writer, comics historian and feminist activist, active in the counterculture since 1966, she was first known as a comic book author, journalist and fashion designer. Since the 1980s, she has devoted several works to the history of women in American comics – female characters, authors and readers.
The ceremony of November 30, 2023
Thursday November 30, 2023 at 6 p.m. in amphitheater 700,
Lionel Larré, president of Bordeaux Montaigne University,
will present the insignia of Doctor Honoris Causa to Trina Robbins.
The eulogy will be delivered by:
Jean-Paul Gabillietuniversity professor, specialist in the cultural history of comics and illustration, researcher within the unit CLIMAS, Cultures and Literatures of the English-speaking Worlds – UR 4196.
Nathalie Jaëckvice-president of research, university professor, specialist in English literature, researcher within the CLIMAS unit, Cultures and Literatures of the English-speaking Worlds – UR 4196.
Closing by the choir of Bordeaux Montaigne University who will perform Ladies of the Canyon de Joni Mitchell.
Sketches of the ceremony made by students of the university’s Illustration master’s degree.
Event open to the public.
Comics historian and feminist activist
Born August 17, 1938 in Brooklyn, Trina Perlson spent his youth in South Ozone Park, a working-class neighborhood in Queens, in a family of liberal Jews of modest means, with a mother who was a schoolteacher, a stay-at-home father and an older sister. Trina was a big reader from very early on, both of books without images and of comics. As a teenager, she began sewing for herself and writing for her high school newspaper. In 1960, she moved to California, where she met her future husband Paul Jay Robbins. The young couple integrated into the literary and musical bohemianism of Los Angeles, crossing paths with numerous celebrities (Bob Dylan, the Byrds, Jim Morrison among others) at the same time as Trina became a sought-following stylist-seamstress. At the end of 1966, having left her husband but kept her married name, she returned to New York, where she opened Broccoli, a fashion boutique located at 56 East 4th Street in Manhattan. For the next four years, she produced illustrations and comics for the local countercultural weekly The East Village Other but also discovers with wonder the comix underground that emerged in San Francisco at the same time.
Despite the slowdown of the underground movement from the mid-1970s, Trina Robbins pursued a career as an illustrator with alternative comic book publishers, but also made brief forays into Marvel and DC. From the end of the 1990s, she continued her work in comics mainly as a screenwriter.
Indeed, from the 1980s, writing and researching the history of women in American comics have become the new heart of its activity. After Women and the Comicsco-written with Cat Yronwode in 1983, Trina Robbins produced around ten books from 1993 to 2020 in which she became the “herstorian” of the place of women, adolescents and little girls in the history of American comics, revealing and (re)discovering female authors and characters who had been made invisible by the male historiography of this means of expression.
It is therefore for her fight for the progression of the place and recognition of women in American comics that the artist and researcher Trina Robbins is distinguished today by the Bordeaux Montaigne University.
You can consult Wikipedia article regarding Trina Robbins (labeled “good article”).
Some bibliographical references from Trina RobbinsComicsTexts
Selection of works by Trina Robbins in Babord+
Other public meetings with Trina RobbinsWednesday November 29, Master class (in English) “The Great American Women Cartoonists”, Maison des Arts 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Moderation: Jean-Paul Gabilliet.Friday December 1st, Trina Robbins meeting with the public at the library Bad reputation (19, Rue des Argentiers, Bordeaux), 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Moderation: Camille de Singly, professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, and Marie-Paul Noël, translator of the autobiography of T. Robbins Last Girl Standing (Bliss Editions, 2022).
The long tradition of Honoris Causa doctors
Bordeaux Montaigne University has already awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to eminent scientific personalities and thinkers, such as the Nobel Prize winners in literature. Jose Saramago et Mario Vargas Llosathe American philosopher specializing in gender studies Judith Butler, the former secretary general of the international organization of the Francophonie, former president of Senegal Abdou Dioufor even in 2013, the German philosopher Axel Honnethin 2015 the famous Finnish musician and composer Kaija Saahariao, in 2018, Richard Dyer, historian and film theorist, in 2019, Patricio Guzmancommitted artist, filmmaker and documentary maker from Chile and finally in 2020, Ibrahima ThioubSenegalese historian specializing in slavery.
This title of Doctor Honoris Causa is one of the most prestigious distinctions awarded by French universities to honor “ personalities of foreign nationality due to eminent services rendered to science, letters or the arts, to France or to the university ».
See the list of Doctors Honoris Causa from Bordeaux Montaigne University
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