Judith Robinson-Valéry FAHA (1 July 1933 – June 29, 2010) was the foundation professor of French and the head of the School of Western European Languages at the University of New South Wales and later a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.
She was an important scholar on the thought and creativity of the French poet, essayist and philosopher Paul Valéry.
In this period she commenced research on the French poet, essayist and philosopher Paul Valéry, publishing a number of articles on the latter's Cahiers (Notebooks) and, in 1963, a book on the subject entitled L'Analyse de l'esprit dans les Cahiers de Valéry, which "undertook for the first time to trace the relevance of mathematical and scientific models in Valéry’s intellectual system with reference to subjects such as time, memory, dream, poetry and ethics.
In 1963 Robinson-Valéry was appointed as the foundation professor of French and the head of the School of Western European Languages at the University of New South Wales.
In 1982 she was named to a directorship of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.
She continued to pursue her research on Paul Valéry for the next twenty years, which resulted in many publications and awards.
She married Dr Brian John Robinson, a radio astronomer, at the British Embassy in Paris in 1956.