Hollis Robbins

Hollis Robbins (born in 1963) is an American academic and scholar in the humanities, specializing in literature and poetry.

Career

Robbins is Chair of the Department of Humanities at the Peabody Institute[1] and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.[2] Robbins is a noted expert in the field of nineteenth-century African American poetry.[3] Robbins' work focuses primarily on nineteenth and early twentieth century black print culture;[4] 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 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[5] From 2004-2006 Robbins was an Assistant Professor of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. Robbins is the winner of the 2014 Johns Hopkins University Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award [6]

Robbins has edited several 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).[7][8] She also co-edited The Works of William Wells Brown (2006) with Paula Garrett [7] and recently edited a Penguin edition of Frances E.W. Harper's 1892 novel Iola Leroy.[9] Robbins and Gates are currently editing an anthology of nineteenth century Black women's writing.

Robbins writes and publishes on African American poets and on film music.[10] 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.[11]

Books edited

Selected articles

References

  1. ↑ Faculty Bio http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/faculty/robbins/
  2. ↑ "Hollis Robbins". Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Department of English". Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Hollis Robbins". Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "The Johns Hopkins University Press - JHU Press Faculty Editorial Board". Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  6. ↑ "Hollis Robbins will receive JHU Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award". The Peabody Post. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  7. 1 2 http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/AfricanAmerican/?view=usa&ci=9780195309638
  8. ↑ http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/civitas/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465027083
  9. ↑ Iola Leroy http://www.amazon.com/Leroy-Frances-Ellen-Watkins-Harper/dp/014310604X
  10. ↑ "U.S. History in 70 MM." [review of Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight] The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 15 (3): 368–370. July 2016.
  11. ↑ http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/past_issues/spring10/finding_their_voice.html

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