Hollis Robbins

Hollis Robbins is an American academic and editor.

Robbins entered Johns Hopkins University at the age of 16 and received her B.A. in 1983. She received 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 in 1998, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2003.[1] From 2004 to 2006, Robbins was an assistant professor of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.

Robbins is Dean of the School of Arts & Humanities at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Previously, she was Chair of the Department of Humanities at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University[2] as well as the Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins, from 2014 to 2017.[3] From 2014 to 2018, Robbins served on the Faculty Editorial Board of the Johns Hopkins University Press.[4]

Robbins's work focuses primarily on nineteenth and early twentieth century black print culture.[5] Robbins co-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). She also co-edited The Works of William Wells Brown (2006) with Paula Garrett and wrote the introduction to an edition of Frances E.W. Harper's 1892 novel Iola Leroy.

Books
Author
  • Introduction to Frances E. W Harper's Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted. Penguin Classics (2010) ISBN 9-780-1431-0604-3
  • Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition. University of Georgia Press (2020) ISBN 9-780-8203-5694-5
Editor
  • Portable Nineteenth Century African American Women Writers. Penguin Classics (2017) ISBN 9-780-1431-0599-2
  • The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin. Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins W.W. Norton (2006) ISBN 0-393-05946-4
  • The Works of William Wells Brown. Oxford University Press (2006) ISBN 0-19-530963-4
  • In Search of Hannah Crafts: Essays on The Bondwoman's Narrative. Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins Basic/Civitas (2004) ISBN 0-465-02708-3

References
  1. https://ah.sonoma.edu/deans-message/about-dean
  2. "Hollis Robbins Named 2017-18 National Humanities Center Delta Delta Delta Fellow". Apr 1, 2017. Retrieved Aug 28, 2019.
  3. "Hollis Robbins". Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  4. "The Johns Hopkins University Press - JHU Press Faculty Editorial Board". Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  5. "Hollis Robbins at NHC". Retrieved 2 April 2018.
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