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Current OSU Appointment

Assistant Professor, Special Collections & Area Std

Books and Monographs

Jenny E. Robb. Before the Yellow Kid: Precursors of the American Newspaper Comic Strip. Exhibition Catalogue. Columbus, OH, USA: The Ohio State University Cartoon, Graphic and Photographic Arts Research Library, 1995.

Michael Alexander Kahn and Jenny E Robb. Political Cartoons and Caricatures from the Collection of Michael Alexander Kahn. Exhibition Catalogue. New York: Grolier Club, 2007.

Chapters In Books

Jenny E. Robb. "School of Caniff." In Milton Caniff: A Celebration of the Centennial of his Birth. Exhibition Catalogue. Edited by Lucy Shelton Caswell. 24-35. Columbus, OH, USA: The Ohio State University Libraries. 2007.

Jenny E. Robb and Rebecca Wanzo. "Finding Archives/Making Archives: Observations on Conducting Multicultural Comics Research." In Approaches to Multicultural Comics: From Zap! to Blue Beetle. Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2010.

Curated Exhibitions

General Exhibits

Jenny E Robb and Lucy Caswell, Co-curators. "Before the Yellow Kid: Precursors to the American Newspaper Comic Strip", 1995. The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library Reading Room. January 09, 1995 - April 21, 1995.

Jenny E Robb, Curator. "A Tribute to Charles Schulz: Celebrating 50 Years of Peanuts", 2000. the Cartoon Research Library, San Francisco, CA. May 23, 2000 - October 15, 2000.

Jenny E Robb, Curator. "Trick or Treat: 50 Years of Wacky Cartoon Costumes", 2000. the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. May 23, 2000 - October 15, 2000.

Jenny E Robb, Curator. "Ridiculing the Rhetoric: Cartoons from the Campaign Trail", 2000. the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. September 02, 2000 - December 03, 2000.

Jenny E Robb, Curator. "You Say Tomato, I Say Bizarro: A Retrospective of the Work of Dan Piraro", 2001. the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. December 01, 2001 - February 10, 2002.

Jenny E Robb and Malcolm Whyte, Co-curators. "An Exploration of Cartoon Art." the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. (2001) December 1, 2001 - January 1, 2005.

John Karwin and Jenny E. Robb, Co-Curators. "Superwacky: Animation on Television 1949-2002", 2002. Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton, CA. January 19, 2002 - May 12, 2002.

Jenny E Robb and Andrew Farago, Co-Curators. "Web-slinging and Wall-crawling: The Art of Spider-Man", 2002. the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. April 19, 2002 - July 21, 2002.

Jenny E Robb and Malcolm Whyte, Co-curators. "Zap, Crash and Burn: Underground Comix and the Bay Area", 2002. the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. July 27, 2002 - September 29, 2002.

John Karwin and Jenny E Robb, Co-curators. "Superwacky: Animation on Television 1949-2002", 2002. the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. October 05, 2002 - January 12, 2003.

Jenny E Robb and Rod Gilchrist, Co-curators. "Hate Mail: Comic Strip Controversies", 2003. the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. January 25, 2003 - June 08, 2003.

Jenny E Robb, Curator. "Lights, Camera, ACTION!: From the Printed Page to the Silver Screen", 2003. the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. November 15, 2003 - May 16, 2004.

Jenny E Robb, Curator. "Happy Hundredth, Dr.Suess!: The Timeless Art of Theodor Geisel", 2004. the Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. February 20, 2004 - June 20, 2004.

Jenny E Robb, Curator. "Drawn on Stone: Political Prints from the 1830s and 1840s", 2005. The Ohio State University Philip Sills Exhibit Hall, Thompson Library, Columbus, OH. December 19, 2005 - March 19, 2006.

Jenny E Robb and Michael Alexander Kahn, Co-curators. "Political Cartoons and Caricatures from the Collection of Michael Alexander Kahn", 2007. the Grolier Club, New York, NY. (Forthcoming) March 21, 2007 - May 25, 2007.

Jenny E. Robb and Dr. Jared Gardner, Co-curators. "To Be Continued: Comic Strip Storytelling.", 2007. the Cartoon Research Library Reading Room Gallery. June 18, 2007 - August 24, 2007.

Jenny E. Robb, Curator. "School of Caniff.", 2007. The Ohio State University Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor. October 08, 2007 - October 28, 2007.

Jenny E. Robb, Organizer and curator. "Journeys: Treasures of The Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections". Thompson Library Exhibition Gallery, Columbus, OH. August 22, 2009 - January 03, 2010.

Degrees

1991	B.A., Wittenberg University, History

1995	M.A., Syracuse University, History

1995	M.A., Syracuse University, Museum Studies

Editorial Activities

Assistant Editor

2007 - 2009

College and Research Libraries. (Journal)

Editorial Board

2010 - present

RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage. (Journal)

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Jenny E. Robb. "Bill Blackbeard: The Collector Who Rescued the Comics."  Journal of American Culture. Vol. 32, no. 3. (September 2009): 244-256.

Jenny E. Robb. "The Opper Project: Collaborating with Educators to Promote the Use of Editorial Cartoons in the Social Studies Classroom."  RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage. Vol. 10, no. 2. (November 2009): 70-94.