Name Hollis Robbins | ||
Education Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, John F. Kennedy School of Government | ||
Hollis Robbins (born in 1963) is an American academic and scholar in the humanities, specializing in literature and poetry.
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Career
Robbins is a member of the Department of Humanities at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and was from 2014 to 2017 the Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins. Robbins is a noted expert in the field of nineteenth-century African American literature and recently co-edited with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. an anthology of African American women's writing. Robbins' work focuses primarily on nineteenth and early twentieth century black print culture; she is affiliated with the Black Press Research Collective and serves as an advisor to the Black Periodical Literature Project at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Robbins has been the winner of numerous awards and fellowship including the 2014 Johns Hopkins University Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award, a 2015 Johns Hopkins University Discovery Award, and a fellowship from the National Humanities Center.
Robbins received a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University, a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1990, an M.A. in English literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2003. Robbins serves on the Faculty Editorial Board of the Johns Hopkins University Press From 2004-2006 Robbins was an Assistant Professor of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
Previously, Robbins edited several other books with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., including The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin (2006) and In Search of Hannah Crafts: Essays on The Bondwoman's Narrative (2003). She also co-edited The Works of William Wells Brown (2006) with Paula Garrett and an edition of Frances E.W. Harper's 1892 novel Iola Leroy.
Robbins writes and publishes on African American poets and on film music. Her own poetry has been published in The Cortland Review, Mezzo Cammin, Per Contra, Boston Literary Magazine and other literary journals, and has been set to music by Peabody composers.