Hollis Robbins, 2017–2018 - National Humanities Center

Hollis Robbins (NHC Fellow, 2017–18)

Project Title

Forms of Contention: The African American Sonnet Tradition

Johns Hopkins University

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Fellowship Work Summary, 2017–18

Hollis Robbins completed her manuscript Forms of Contention: The African American Sonnet Tradition for University of Georgia Press. She also completed and published three articles: "'Black Panther,' History and the Future" for Inside Higher Ed (February 27, 2018); "Dancing with Chains" for BLARB (April 3, 2018); and "Reading Gone with the Wind in China" for The American Interest (May 4, 2018).

Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition

Producing Outrage: The Poetics of Enslavement

Finding Freedom from the Familiar

Hollis Robbins, “The Double-Voiced Form: The African American Sonnet Tradition”