Hilary Robinson is Professor of Feminism, Art & Theory at Loughborough University. Her teaching and research focuses on feminist art theory, and publications include Visibly Female: Women and Art Today (1987); Reading Art, Reading Irigaray: The Politics of Art by Women (2006); Feminism-Art-Theory 1968-2014 (2015). She is currently working on a history of the feminist movement in art internationally.
From 1992-2005 she worked at the University of Ulster teaching the history and theory of contemporary art to studio Fine and Applied Art students, at BA, MFA, and MPhil and PhD levels. She became Research Co-ordinator for Art and Design, leading the School to a grade of 5 in RAE2001. She then became Head of School. While at the University of Ulster she gained her first Chair, as Professor of the Politics of Art. In 2005 she was appointed to the position of Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, where she served a full five-year term. She was granted tenure at the same time, as full professor of Art Theory and Criticism. In 2012 she took up the position of Dean of the School of Art and Design, Middlesex University, London, a position she held until 2016.
Hilary gained BA Fine Art (Painting), University of Newcastle upon Tyne; MA in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art, London, and PhD in Art Theory from the University of Leeds.