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Robyn Gillam has worked as a freelance writer since 1989 in the areas of cultural studies, cultural politics, Canadian Literature and museums. She has contributed articles, interviews and reviews to small literary and cultural magazines such as Border/lines, Paragraph and Blood&Aphorisms. Gillam has also written for Eye Weekly and reviewed extensively for amazon.ca
Gillam published her favourite interview, with Timothy Findley, in Descant (no. 109 [2000]) Her other notable interviews are with Audrey Thomas, Althea Prince (Paragraph), Will Self (Eye Weekly) and Mordechai Richler (Paragraph). Gillam has received the following awards:
- Explorations Grant, Canada Council
- Toronto Arts Council Grant
- Works in Progress Grant, Ontario Arts Council.
Gillam also lectures at York University, in Humanities and History. Her area of academic expertise is the ancient Near East, specializing in Egyptian Literature, in which she received a Doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1991 Gillam has also developed in interest in museums, their publics, policies and relationship with the media. In 2005, she was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Association of Canadian Art Gallery Educators (CAGE) in Halifax, and in 2008 was invited to speak at the 20th anniversary symposium of the Spirit Sings exhibit at the Alberta College of Art and Design. Her in-depth study of these issues is Hall of Mirrors::Musseums and the Canadian Publc
Gillam also has an interest in theatre and performance. She has investigated its use in museum interpretation, as well as studying ancient Egyptian ritual performance and reconstructing it with the help of her students at York. Publications in this area include “Re-staging the Triumph of Horus: Hunting the Hippo in Toronto," KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, Volume 11, no. 1: 72-83, Stanford University, Site for Archaeology and Performance and Performance and Drama in Ancient Egypt .