Career

Robbins is a professor of Humanities at the Peabody Institute

Peabody Institute

The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a renowned conservatory and preparatory school located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland at the corner of Charles and Monument Streets at Mount Vernon Place.-History:...

 and Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Africana Studies at the Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

. She serves as an adviser of the Black Periodical Literature Project at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 and is a noted expert in the field of nineteenth-century African American literature. Robbins received a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

, an M.A. in English literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder, her Ph.D. from Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 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

Millsaps College

Millsaps College is a private liberal arts college located in Jackson, Mississippi. Founded in 1890, the college is recognized as one of the country's best private colleges dedicated to undergraduate teaching and educating the whole individual. Affiliated with the United Methodist Church, Millsaps...

 in Jackson, Mississippi.

Robbins coedited two books with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and...

: 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 with Paula Garrett (2006) and recently edited a Penguin edition of Frances E.W. Harper's 1892 novel Iola Leroy

Iola Leroy

Iola Leroy or, Shadows Uplifted, an 1892 novel by Frances Harper, is one of the first novels published by an African-American woman.-Plot introduction:...

. Her poetry has been published in The Cortland Review, Mezzo Cammin

Mezzo Cammin

Mezzo Cammin is a semiannual online literary journal devoted to formalist poetry by contemporary women as well as to bring attention back to work that was more famous in previous eras. The journal's title comes from Judith Moffett's poem "Mezzo Cammin", which in turn takes its title from the...

, Per Contra, Boston Literary Magazine, and other literary journals.

Books Edited

• Frances E. W Harper's Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted. Penguin Classics (2010). http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Iola-Leroy/Frances-Ellen-Watkins-Harper/e/9780143106043
• 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 UP. (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

Selected articles

• "Fugutive Mail: The Deliverance of Henry Box Brown
  Henry Box Brown
  Henry "Box" Brown was a 19th century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom by arranging to have himself mailed to Philadelphia abolitionists in a wooden crate...
  
  ." American Studies, 50:1/2 (Spring/Summer 2009): 5-30
• "The Emperor's New Critique." New Literary History - Volume 34, Number 4, Autumn 2003, pp. 659–675
• "A Menstrual Lesson for Girls: Maria Edgeworth's "The Purple Jar
  The Purple Jar
  The Purple Jar is a well-known short story by Maria Edgeworth , an Anglo-Irish writer of novels and stories. "The Purple Jar" first appeared in The Parent's Assistant and reappeared in Rosamond...
  
  " in Menstruation A Cultural History edited by Andrew Shail and Gillian Howie. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 http://www.palgrave.com/products/TitlePrint.aspx?PID=269455
• “Flushing Away Sentiment: Water Politics in The Custom of the Country
  The Custom of the Country
  The Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.-Plot summary:...
  
  .” Edith Wharton’s Custom of the Country. Eds. Isabelle Boof-Vermesse and Anne Ullmo-Michel. Paris: Ellipses, 2000.
• "Government Regulation of Gambling Advertising: Replacing Vice Prevention With Consumer Protection," with Michael B. Rothman. Journal of Gambling Studies, Vol. 7, Winter 1991.http://www.springerlink.com/content/w581ur711640t478/

External links

• http://www.mezzocammin.com/iambic.php?vol=2011&iss=1&cat=poetry&page=robbinsSummer 2011 issue of Mezzo Cammin
  Mezzo Cammin
  Mezzo Cammin is a semiannual online literary journal devoted to formalist poetry by contemporary women as well as to bring attention back to work that was more famous in previous eras. The journal's title comes from Judith Moffett's poem "Mezzo Cammin", which in turn takes its title from the...
  
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• Summer 2010 issue of Per Contra
• New York Public Library Talk with Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• News Story in JHU Gazette
• Bio at Peabody Institute
• New York Review of Books October 25, 2007
• Times Literary Supplement March 28, 2007
• The Nation December 7, 2006
• New York Times October 23, 2006
• History Now Article on Uncle Tom's Cabin
• NYTimes Book Review November 19, 2006