Tom Robson
- Assistant Teaching Professor // Cornerstone
- Assistant Teaching Professor (by courtesy) // Theatre // Rueff School
- Assistant Teaching Professor (by courtesy) / Theatre // Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance
Office and Contact
Room: BRNG 6163
Email: trobson@purdue.edu
Tom Robson received his Ph.D. in Theatre History, Theory, and Literature from Indiana University in 2011. Before joining Cornerstone, he served for twelve years on the faculty of the Millikin University School of Theatre & Dance. His primary research interest is in the intersection of Disney theme parks and performance studies. In 2019 he published Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience: The Tourist as Actor (co-edited with Jennifer A. Kokai), and in the fall of 2024 their follow-up monograph Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, Anxiety will be released.