Hollis Robbins

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Hollis Robbins
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Robbins in 2015
Born1963
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
Institutions
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Occupation
LanguageEnglish

Hollis Robbins (born 1963[1]) is an American academic and editor. Her scholarship focuses on African-American literature.

Education[]

Robbins was born and raised in New Hampshire.[2][3] She entered Johns Hopkins University at the age of 16 and received her B.A. in 1983.[4] She received a master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1990, was a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at Stanford University in 1991,[5] received an M.A. in English literature from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1998, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2003.[6]

Career[]

From 1986 to 1988 Robbins worked at The New Yorker Magazine in the promotions department.[7] From 2004 to 2006, Robbins was an assistant professor of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.[8] She was Chair of the Department of Humanities at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University[9] where she taught a class in film music with Thomas Dolby.[10] She was the Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins, from 2014 to 2017.[11] From 2014 to 2018, she served on the Faculty Editorial Board of the Johns Hopkins University Press.[12] She won the 2014 Johns Hopkins University Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award,[13] a 2015 Johns Hopkins University Discovery Award,[14] and a 2017-2018 fellowship from the National Humanities Center.[15]

Robbins is Dean of the School of Arts & Humanities at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California.[16] Her research focuses on African American history and literature.[17] In 2004, she began collaborating with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and co-edited In Search of Hannah Crafts: Essays on The Bondwoman's Narrative (2004). She also co-edited The Annotated 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (2007) with Gates.[18][19] She has also written on higher education[20][21][22] as well as African American poetry[23][24] and film music.[25] She is also a published poet.[26][27][28]

Selected publications[]

As author[]

  • — (2003). "The Emperor's New Critique". New Literary History. Johns Hopkins University Press. 34 (4): 659–675. doi:10.1353/nlh.2004.0010. ISSN 1080-661X. OCLC 1296558. S2CID 170513535. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
  • — (2009). "Fugitive Mail: The Deliverance of Henry 'Box' Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics" (PDF). American Studies. Spring/Summer 2009. Mid-America American Studies Association. 50 (1/2): 5–25. ISSN 0026-3079. OCLC 00818197. Archived from the original on July 18, 2019. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
  • — (2014). "23. Killing Time: Dracula and Social Discoordination". In Whitman, Glen; Dow, James (eds.). Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 239–248. ISBN 978-1-4422-3503-8. OCLC 1100669007. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
  • — (2015). "Django Unchained: Repurposing Western Film Music". Safundi. South African and American Studies. 16 (3): 280–290. doi:10.1080/17533171.2015.1057022. ISSN 1753-3171. S2CID 143313188.
  • — (2020). Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American sonnet tradition. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-5764-5. OCLC 1238066484.

As editor[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Robbins, Hollis, 1963-". The Library of Congress. Archived from the original on March 31, 2021. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  2. ^ Robbins, Hollis. "Laundering Little Women". The American Mind. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
  3. ^ "A Song Called Life". A Song Called Life. May 5, 2021. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
  4. ^ Robbins, Hollis. "Finding Freedom from the Familiar". National Humanities Center. Archived from the original on March 31, 2021. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  5. ^ Rothman, Michael; — (1991). "Government regulation of gambling advertising: Replacing vice prevention with consumer protection". Journal of Gambling Studies. Springer Science+Business Media. 7 (4): 337–360. doi:10.1007/BF01023750. ISSN 1573-3602. OCLC 299333735. PMID 24243220. S2CID 12284985.
  6. ^ "About the Dean". School of Arts & Humanities at Sonoma State University. May 16, 2017. Archived from the original on September 6, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
  7. ^ "A Song Called Life". A Song Called Life. May 5, 2021. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
  8. ^ Parks, Casey (December 16, 2004). "Rise of the 'Religious Left'". Jackson Free Press. Archived from the original on March 31, 2021. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  9. ^ "Hollis Robbins Named 2017-18 National Humanities Center Delta Delta Delta Fellow". The Peabody Post. The Peabody Institute. April 1, 2017. Archived from the original on June 25, 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  10. ^ https://www.baltimoresun.com/food-drink/bal-thomas-dolby-baltimore-johns-hopkins-psycho-killers-2015-story.html
  11. ^ "Hollis Robbins". Center for Africana Studies. Johns Hopkins University. April 3, 2017. Archived from the original on December 15, 2019. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  12. ^ "The Johns Hopkins University Press - JHU Press Faculty Editorial Board". Archived from the original on May 13, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  13. ^ "Hollis Robbins will receive JHU Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award". The Peabody Post. April 2, 2014. Archived from the original on May 27, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
  14. ^ "2015 Awardees". Johns Hopkins University. Archived from the original on May 3, 2017. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
  15. ^ "National Humanities Center Names Fellows for 2017-18". National Humanities Center. March 29, 2017. Archived from the original on September 6, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
  16. ^ "SSU Appoints New Dean of Arts and Humanities". Sonoma State University. June 4, 2018. Archived from the original on December 4, 2020. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  17. ^ McCabe, Bret (Winter 2017). "Talking with Hollis Robbins". Johns Hopkins Magazine. Archived from the original on July 11, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  18. ^ Updike, John (November 29, 2006). "Down the River. The annotated 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'". The New Yorker. New York: Condé Nast. ISSN 0028-792X. OCLC 320541675. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
  19. ^ Rothstein, Edward (October 23, 2006). "Digging Through the Literary Anthropology of Stowe's Uncle Tom". The New York Times. New York. ISSN 1553-8095. OCLC 1645522. Archived from the original on January 27, 2021. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
  20. ^ Robbins, Hollis (February 16, 2021). "Colleges should build their own social media platforms instead of relying on Facebook (opinion)". Inside Higher Ed. Archived from the original on 2021-03-01. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  21. ^ Robbins, Hollis. "A Reactionary Renaming: Stanford and English Language Politics". BLARB. Archived from the original on December 19, 2020. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  22. ^ Carson, Robert; — (November 29, 2019). "Race in America. Susan Sontag: Race, Class, and the Limits of Style". The American Interest. Vol. 15 no. 4. The American Interest LLC. ISSN 1556-5777. OCLC 180161622. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
  23. ^ Robbins, Hollis. "For Maya Angelou: "The Caged Bird Sings" [by Hollis Robbins]". The Best American Poetry. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  24. ^ "Hollis Robbins at NHC". Archived from the original on April 23, 2018. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
  25. ^ — (July 2016). Society for Historians of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era (United States). "U.S. History in 70 mm - The Hateful Eight (2015)". The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 15 (3): 368–370. doi:10.1017/S1537781416000074. ISSN 1537-7814. S2CID 163505610. Review of Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight
  26. ^ Robbins, Hollis. "Poetry. Hollis Robbins". Archived from the original on August 31, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
  27. ^ Robbins, Hollis. "Poetry. His Paws Upon The Dish by Hollis Robbins". Archived from the original on February 23, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
  28. ^ Robbins, Hollis. "Poetry. Pond by Hollis Robbins". Archived from the original on January 21, 2020. Retrieved February 25, 2021.

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