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Aaron Robertson

Election Year: 2017

Election Constituency: United States of America

Scholar Status: Scholar Alum

Rhodes Identifier: Michigan & Balliol 2017

Aaron Robertson

Biography

Aaron C. Robertson, Redford, is a senior at Princeton University, where he is majoring in Italian. Aaron's research focuses on transnationalism and linguistic exchange in Afro-Italian literature. He is particularly interested in issues of migration, self-representation, and translation in contemporary Afro-Italian autobiographies. Aaron serves as co-editor-in-chief of The Nassau Literary Review and has written for The Daily Princetonian, Detroit Metro Times, Dramatics, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Aaron has interned for an Italian publishing house and participated in creative writing programs at Cambridge University and Bard College at Simon's Rock. He has received two departmental prizes for his work in Italian. Aaron was also awarded the Gates Millennium and QuestBridge Scholarships.