Hollis Robbins

Hollis Robbins (born in 1963) is an American academic and scholar.

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Career

Robbins is a professor of Humanities at the Peabody Institute and Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Africana Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. She serves as an adviser of the Black Periodical Literature Project at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and is a noted expert in the field of nineteenth-century African American literature. Robbins received a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in English literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder, her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2003, and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1990. Previously Robbins was an Assistant Professor at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.

Robbins coedited two books with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin (2006) and In Search of Hannah Crafts: Essays on The Bondwoman's Narrative (2003).[1][2] She also co-edited The Works of William Wells Brown with Paula Garrett (2006) [1] and recently edited a Penguin edition of Frances E.W. Harper's 1892 novel Iola Leroy. [3] Her poetry has been published in The Cortland Review, Mezzo Cammin, Per Contra, Boston Literary Magazine, and other literary journals.

Books Edited

Selected articles

References

  1. ^ a b http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/AfricanAmerican/?view=usa&ci=9780195309638
  2. ^ http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/civitas/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465027083
  3. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Leroy-Frances-Ellen-Watkins-Harper/dp/014310604X

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