Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

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

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

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Full-time Faculty

T. Austin Graham

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

African American and African Diaspora

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Farah Jasmine Griffin

University Professor

Research Interests

African American Literature

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

History and Politics

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Zoë L. Henry

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

African American Literature/ Diaspora Studies

20th and 21st Century Literature

Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Theory

Dance and Performance Studies

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Law and Literature

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Critical Social Theory

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Full-time Faculty

Robert O'Meally

Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

19th- and 20th-Century American and African-American Literature

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

African American and African Diaspora

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

American and the Americas

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Shana L. Redmond

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

Postcolonial and Global South

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Black Radical Historiography

History and Politics

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Popular Culture

Cultural Studies

Social Movements