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Francophone Literature

Affiliated Faculty

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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
Archive Theory
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
Africa
Europe

Affiliated Graduate Students

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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"
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