Farah Griffin

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]

Farah Griffin
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2021)
Christian Gauss Award (2022)[1]
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineAfrican-American literature
Institutions

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)

References
  1. "2022 Book Awards Winners".
  2. "Lecture: Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University | Department of Music | University of Pittsburgh". www.music.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
  3. "Activism Leads Columbia to Form Black Studies Department". Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly. 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  4. "Farah Jasmine Griffin | IRAAS Institute for Research in African-American Studies". iraas.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
  5. "Farah Griffin | Center for the Study of Social Difference". socialdifference.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
  6. "Meet the New Crop of 2021 Guggenheim Fellows". Columbia News. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
  7. url=https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393355772
  8. url=https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324022046
  9. "Nonfiction Book Review: If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday by Farah Jasmine Griffin, Author Free Press $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-86808-0". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  10. Williams, Ryan Michael (2008-09-25). "Clawing at the Limits of Cool by Griffin & Washington". PopMatters. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  11. Leubner, Ben (2010-05-01). "Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever". Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation. 6 (1). doi:10.21083/csieci.v6i1.1212. ISSN 1712-0624.
  12. George, Nelson (2013-09-20). "'Harlem Nocturne,' by Farah Jasmine Griffin". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  13. Batiste, Stephanie (2016-07-02). "Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II, by Farah Jasmine Griffin". The Black Scholar. 46 (3): 64–66. doi:10.1080/00064246.2016.1188361. ISSN 0006-4246. S2CID 152047614.
  14. "Nonfiction Book Review: Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists of Progressive Politics During World War II by Farah Jasmine Griffin. Basic, $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-465-01875-8". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  15. Bates, Karen Grigsby (September 10, 2013). "Harlem On Their Minds: Life In America's Black Capital". NPR.org. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  16. "HARLEM NOCTURNE Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II by Farah Jasmine Griffin". Kirkus Reviews. June 17, 2013. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  17. Jarrett, Gene (2000). "Review of "WHO SET YOU FLOWIN'?": THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MIGRATION NARRATIVE". The Black Scholar. 30 (2): 47–49. doi:10.1080/00064246.2000.11431091. JSTOR 41068882. S2CID 219315065.
  18. Higbie, Andrea (August 29, 1999). "Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  19. "Nonfiction Book Review: Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868 by Farah Jasmine Griffin, Editor, Rebecca Primus, Author, Addie Brown, Joint Author Alfred A. Knopf $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-45128-0". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  20. Spring, Howard (2005-09-01). "Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies". Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation. 1 (2). doi:10.21083/csieci.v1i2.20. ISSN 1712-0624.


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