Hollis Robbins — African American Women Writers of the 19th Century

Dr. Hollis Robbins is currently a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, is a member of the humanities faculty of Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she served for three years as the Director of the Africana Studies Programl.  She is co-editor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of a landmark new anthology from Penguin Classics:  The Portable 19th-Century African American Women Writers.  Join Dr. Robbins for a fascinating look at these writers who took pen to paper during some of America’s most tumultuous times, in the very building where one such writer lived as a young, enslaved woman:  Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly.