Hollis Robbins, Department of Humanities
Hollis Robbins, Chair, has taught at the Peabody Conservatory since 2006; she has held a joint appointment in the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins since 2008. Professor Robbins has a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University (2003) a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University (1990), and a B.A. in the Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins.
Robbins is editor or co-editor of four books on nineteenth-century African American literature, including, most recently, the Penguin Classics edition of Frances E.W. Harper’s 1892 novel Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted (2010) and The Annotated Uncle Tom’s Cabin (2006), co-edited with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Her poems have been published in The Cortland Review, Mezzo Cammin, Per Contra, Boston Literary Magazine, Mastodon Dentist, and Bridges, a Jewish Feminist Journal. Her most recent scholarly article is a study of census politics in William Wordsworth’s “We are Seven” (1798), published in English Language Notes 48.2 (2011). She is a frequent contributor to publications such as Inside Higher Ed and The Root.com, and is an occasional guest on WYPR.
Courses taught include:
PY 260-115 Humanities Core I
PY 260-216 Humanities Core II
PY 260-211 Nineteenth Century Novel to Film
PY 260-222 Introduction to Interpretation
PY 260-226 Modern Drama
PY 260-228 Literary Trials: Justice in Black and White
PY 260-232 World Film
PY 260-249 Film History: Sound and Scores
PY 260-312 Literature of Imprisonment
PY 260-313 Bible as Literature
PY 260-316 20th Century Aesthetics and Politics
Courses Taught at Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
AS 360-133 Great Books at Homewood
AS 362-200 African American Poetry and Poetics
AS 362.106 Civil Rights and the Black Experience
