Farah Griffin
American academic
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Farah Jasmine Griffin (born 1963) is an American academic and professor specializing in African-American literature. She is William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies,[2] chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department,[3] and Director Elect of the Columbia University Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University.[4]
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2021)
Christian Gauss Award (2022)[1]
Christian Gauss Award (2022)[1]
Education
DisciplineAfrican-American literature
Institutions
Farah Griffin | |
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2021) Christian Gauss Award (2022)[1] |
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| Discipline | African-American literature |
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She received her BA degree from Harvard University in 1985. She completed her PhD from Yale University in 1992.[5]
In 2021, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[6]
Bibliography
- In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (W.W. Norton & Company, 2023) [7]
- Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature(W. W. Norton & Company, 2021)[8]
- If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press, 2001)[9]
- Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever with Salim Washington (St. Martin's, 2008)[10][11]
- Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II (Basic Books, 2013)[12][13][14][15][16]
- "Who Set You Flowin'?": The African-American Migration Narrative (Oxford University Press, 1995)[17]
- Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, ed. (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)[18][19]
- Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies, ed. with Robert G. O'Meally and Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University Press, 2004)[20]
- Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States: A 25th Anniversary Retrospective of Ford Foundation Grant Making, 1982-2007 (Ford Foundation, 2007)
