Hollis Robbins — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Professor of English and Special Advisor for Humanities at the University of Utah.
Formerly Dean of Humanities at the University of Utah and Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at Sonoma State University.
Scholar of African-American literature, higher education, artificial intelligence, and aphantasia.
Co-director of the Black Periodical Literature Project at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. since 2004.
Served on the board of the $400M Johns Hopkins Federal Credit Union from 2011 to 2017.
Holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and a Master's degree in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Biography

Hollis Robbins is an American academic and essayist, currently serving as a Professor of English and Special Advisor for Humanities at the University of Utah. Her scholarship focuses on African-American literature, and her essays explore topics such as higher education, artificial intelligence (AI), and aphantasia. She is recognized for her public-facing leadership in higher education and government relations, spanning over two decades.