Edwards, Brent 1968-

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Edwards, Brent 1968-
(Brent Hayes Edwards)


PERSONAL:

Born January 24, 1968, in Highland Park, IL; son of Harry T. (a federal judge) and Ila H. (a high school English teacher) Edwards; married Nora Nicolini (a designer), 1998. Ethnicity: "Black." Education: Yale University, B.A., 1990; Columbia University, M.A., 1992, Ph.D., 1998.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.

CAREER:

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, assistant professor, 1997-2003, associate professor of English, 2003—.

WRITINGS:


The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2003.

(Editor, with Robert G. O'Meally and Farah Jasmine Griffin) Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 2004.

Coeditor, Social Text, 2001—.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:


PERIODICALS


Research in African Literatures, summer, 2005, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, review of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism, p. 153.

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