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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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]
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]