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Quick facts for kids Hollis Robbins
Robbins in 2015
Born	1963 (age 60–61) New Hampshire, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	Johns Hopkins University (BA) Harvard University (MPP) University of Colorado Boulder (MA) Princeton University (PhD)
Scientific career
Institutions	Millsaps College Johns Hopkins University Sonoma State University University of Utah
Writing career
Occupation	Dean Lecturer literary editor literary theorist poet essayist
Language	English

Hollis Robbins (born 1963) is an American academic and essayist. Robbins serves as Special Advisor for Humanities at the University of Utah; she was formerly dean of humanities. Her scholarship focuses on African-American literature.

Education and early career

Robbins was born and raised in New Hampshire. She entered Johns Hopkins University at the age of 16 and received her B.A. in 1983. From 1986 to 1988 Robbins worked at The New Yorker magazine in the marketing and promotions department. She received a master's degree in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1990, and subsequently enrolled as a doctoral student in the department of communication at Stanford University in 1991.

After working in politics and public policy in California and Colorado, Robbins pursued an M.A. in English literature from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1998, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2003, where her dissertation focused on the literary representations of bureaucracy in 19th-century British and American literature.

Academic career

After receiving her Ph.D., from 2004 to 2006, Robbins was an assistant professor of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. In 2004 she also became co-director with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of the Black Periodical Literature Project at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. From 2006 to 2017 Robbins was a faculty member and then chair of the department of humanities at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University where she taught a class in film music with Thomas Dolby. Robbins was the director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins, from 2014 to 2017. From 2014 to 2018, she served on the faculty editorial board of the Johns Hopkins University Press and from 2011 to 2017 served on the board of the $400M Johns Hopkins Federal Credit Union. She won the 2014 Johns Hopkins University Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award, a 2015 Johns Hopkins University Discovery Award, and a 2017–2018 fellowship from the National Humanities Center.

Robbins became dean of humanities at the University of Utah on July 1, 2022. Previously, from 2018 to 2022, she was dean of the school of arts and humanities at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Her research focuses on African American history and literature. In 2004, she began collaborating with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and co-edited ' (2004). She also co-edited ' (2007) with Gates. She has also written on higher education as well as African American poetry and film music. She is also a published poet.

Selected publications

As author

• Robbins, Hollis (2003). "The Emperor's New Critique". New Literary History (Johns Hopkins University Press) 34 (4): 659–675. doi:10.1353/nlh.2004.0010. ISSN 1080-661X. OCLC 1296558. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/51400. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
• Robbins, Hollis (2009). "Fugitive Mail: The Deliverance of Henry 'Box' Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics" (PDF). American Studies. Spring/Summer 2009 (Mid-America American Studies Association) 50 (1/2): 5–25. ISSN 0026-3079. OCLC 00818197. https://journals.ku.edu/amerstud/article/download/4107/3891. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
• Robbins, Hollis (2014). [Hollis Robbins at Google Books "23. Killing Time: Dracula and Social Discoordination"]. In Whitman, Glen; Dow, James (in en). Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 239–248. ISBN 978-1-4422-3503-8. OCLC 1100669007. Hollis Robbins at Google Books.
• Robbins, Hollis (2015). "Django Unchained: Repurposing Western Film Music". Safundi (South African and American Studies) 16 (3): 280–290. doi:10.1080/17533171.2015.1057022. ISSN 1753-3171.

As editor

• Brown, William Wells (2006). Garrett, Paula; Robbins, Hollis. eds (in en). [Hollis Robbins at Google Books The Works of William Wells Brown: Using his 'strong, manly voice']. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-530963-8. OCLC 255507609. Hollis Robbins at Google Books.

• Gates Jr., Henry Louis; Robbins, Hollis, eds. (2017) (in en). [Hollis Robbins at Google Books The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers]. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 9-780-1431-0599-2. OCLC 1003724581. Hollis Robbins at Google Books.

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