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Hollis Robbins, Department of Humanities
Hollis Robbins, Ph.D.
The Peabody Institute
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
19th C. British and American Literature
African-American Literature
Aesthetics and Politics
Poetry, Poetics, and Musical Forms
Narrative Theory/Political Philosophy
Professor Robbins holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University (2003) and Master in Public Policy from Harvard University (1990). She is the editor of the forthcoming Penguin Edition of Frances E.W. Haper's 1892 novel Iola Leroy. She co-edited with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 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, Charles Dickens, and Hans Christian Andersen. She is currently working on a biography of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as well as project entitled Being Postal: Figures of the Postman in Modern Fiction. She has been awarded fellowships from the W.E.B. DuBois Center for African and African American Research (2006), the Princeton University Center for Human Values (2002), and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy (2001).
