Francophone Literature

Affiliated Faculty

photo of Brent Hayes Edwards

Full-time Faculty

Brent Hayes Edwards

Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Francophone Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Twentieth-Century Poetry

Translation Studies

Black Radical Historiography

20th and 21st Century

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

American and the Americas

Postcolonial and Global South

Affiliated Graduate Students

Alec Joyner

PhD Student

Research Interests

19th and 20th Century American Literature, the Novel, Modernism, Affect Theory, Feminist Theory, African American and African Diaspora Literature, Humor, Comedy, and Laughter, Francophone Literature

Dissertation / Thesis Title

"Going to Pieces: The Laughter of the Other in US Novels of the 1930s"