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Hollis Robbins, Department of Humanities
Hollis Robbins, Ph.D.
The Peabody Institute
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature
African-American Literature
Colonial American/Early American Literature
Poetry, Poetics, and Musical Forms
Narrative Theory/Political Philosophy
Professor Robbins received her Ph.D. in English from
Princeton in 2003. She is the co-editor with Henry Louis
Gates, Jr. of The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin (W.W. Norton, 2006) and In Search of Hannah Crafts, Essays on The Bondwoman's Narrative (Basic Books, 2003). She is also co-editor with Dr. Paula Garret of the Selected Works of Williams Wells Brown
(Oxford University Press, 2006). Other published works include
articles and book chapters on Edith Wharton, Maria Edgeworth, Hannah
Crafts, Charles Dickens, and Hans Christian Andersen. She is currently
working on a book entitled Post Office Stories: Communication, Circulation, and the Structure of Narrative Literature. She is currently a non-resident fellow of the W.E.B. DuBois Center
for African and African American Research. She has been a recipient of
a Princeton University Center for Human Values Graduate Prize
Fellowship (2002), and a Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy
Dissertation Fellowship (2001).
COURSES: Spring 2007
- 260.222: Introduction to Interpretation
- 260.216: 20th C Aesthetics and Politics
T Th 10:30-11:50 B28
Aesthetics and Politics Syllabus
- 260.220: P.O. Stories: Intersubjective Aesthetics
M W 12:30-1:50 303C
T Th 9-10:20 B28
