Sarah Ruffing Robbins is Lorraine Sherley Professor of Literature at TCU. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of ten academic books, beginning with the ALA/Choice-honored monograph, Managing Literacy, Mothering America (Pitt Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture, 2004), the award-winning critical edition of Nellie Arnott’s Writings on Angola (Parlor Press, 2011) with historian Ann Pullen, and, more recently, her co-edited teaching anthology, Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776–1920 (Edinburgh UP, 2022). She was founding director of northwest Georgia’s National Writing Project site, the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, and has directed numerous grant-funded public humanities programs placing writing at the center of shared cultural work. She regularly collaborates with students and community members in web-based writing in connection with public projects, as in The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters initiative and the Teaching Transatlanticism online anthology. She co-edits Edinburgh University Press’s book series, Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
