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.