Robin Wharton is a contributing writer at ArtsATL, Atlanta’s primary source for arts and culture journalism. Her writing about dance has appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin, Art Papers online, DanceATL’s Promenade newsletter, ArtsATL, Atlanta Magazine, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. She studied dance at the School of American Ballet and the Pacific Northwest Ballet School, and is a graduate of Professional Children’s School in New York. As an undergraduate at Tulane University in New Orleans, she was a member of the Newcomb Dance Company. 

In addition to a bachelor of arts in English from Tulane, she holds a law degree (1999) and a Ph.D. in English (2009), both from the University of Georgia. She has 10+ years of university teaching experience and has published academic articles and book chapters on law and cultural studies, the digital humanities, teaching and technology, and medieval studies. After law school, before returning to graduate school for her PhD, she clerked for the Hon. Curtis L. Collier in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and then spent three years as an associate in the intellectual property group of a prominent Atlanta law firm.