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Brent Hayes Edwards

Brent Hayes Edwards is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia
University.

Early life Brent Hayes Edwards

Edwards attended Yale as an

undergraduate, then completed an MA and
PhD at Columbia.

Career
Brent Hayes Edwards in 2009
Teaching
Alma mater Yale University (BA)
Edwards has taught at Rutgers University[1] Columbia University

and now at Columbia, as well as Cornell's (MA, PhD)

summer graduate program, the School of Occupation Professor

Criticism and Theory,[2] and the Dartmouth
Employer Columbia University
summer graduate program The Futures of
American Studies.[3] Notable work The Practice of
Diaspora: Literature,
Translation, and the
Scholarship
Rise of Black
Internationalism
Edwards's first book is The Practice of
Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Awards Guggenheim
Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard Fellowship
University Press, 2003). It examines black
writers in the interwar period, focusing on sites of interaction between Anglophone and
Francophone black writers to develop an argument about the generative potential of
translation, specifically in the black diaspora.[4] Among other influences, Edwards draws on
Stuart Hall's use of the concept of articulation to develop a theoretical use of the French
term décalage, "referring to a shift in space or time or the gap that results from
it...[Edwards argues] that these disparate locations are, like joints, sites of potential
forward motion."[5]

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Edwards also edited the collection Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies (Columbia
University Press, 2004) with Farah Jasmine Griffin and Robert G. O'Meally.

In 2009, Edwards edited a new printing of W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk from
Oxford University Press.

Edwards serves on the editorial boards of Callaloo and Transition.

Claude McKay manuscript discovery

In 2009, Edwards's graduate student Jean-Christophe Cloutier discovered a manuscript in

Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library in the papers of writer Samuel Roth.[6] In
2012, Edwards and Cloutier, in consultation with other experts and after examining archival
materials and personal correspondence, authenticated the manuscript as a previously
unknown 1941 work by Claude McKay, called Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love
Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem.[7] Henry Louis Gates,
who served as one of the experts evaluating the manuscript's authenticity, called it a
"major discovery...It dramatically expands the canon of novels written by Harlem
Renaissance writers."[7]

Awards

In 2004, Edwards's book The Practice of Diaspora won the John Hope Franklin Prize from
the American Studies Association[8] and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Society for French
Historical Studies, and an honorable mention for the James Russell Lowell Prize of the
Modern Language Association.[9]

In 2005, Edwards won the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
Fellowship,[10] to spend one year researching a project on jazz in New York in the 1970s.[11]

In 2015, Edwards was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship[12] to pursue a book project

entitled "The Art of the Lecture."[13]

External links

• Brent Hayes Edwards (http://english.columbia.edu/people/profile/381) at Columbia

University

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References

1. "Newsletter of the Friends of Rutgers English: Online - Excellence Recognized" (http://english.

rutgers.edu/alumni/newsletter/fall_winter_03/excellence_recognized.html) .
english.rutgers.edu. No. Fall/winter. 2003. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/2016082416
0810/http://english.rutgers.edu/alumni/newsletter/fall_winter_03/excellence_recognized.html)
from the original on 24 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.

2. "Past Faculty | The School of Criticism and Theory" (http://sct.cornell.edu/past-faculty/) .

sct.cornell.edu. Cornell University. Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20160812021933/htt
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4. Stephens, Michelle (Fall 2004). "The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise
of Black Internationalism (review)" (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172395) . MFS Modern Fiction
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090) . ISSN 1080-658X (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1080-658X) . S2CID 162346267 (htt
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6. Driscoll, Molly (18 September 2012). "New manuscript by Harlem Renaissance writer Claude
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7. Lee, Felicia R. (14 September 2012). "Harlem Renaissance Novel by Claude McKay Is
Discovered" (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/books/harlem-renaissance-novel-by-claud
e-mckay-is-discovered.html?_r=0) . The New York Times. Archived (https://web.archive.org/
web/20150530074856/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/books/harlem-renaissance-novel-
by-claude-mckay-is-discovered.html?_r=0) from the original on 30 May 2015. Retrieved
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ants/awards_and_prizes/) . www.theasa.net. American Studies Association. Archived (https://
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web/20151123192550/https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Honors-and-Awards/Winne
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10. "The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
Announces 2016-2017 Fellows" (https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/april-11-2016/new-
york-public-librarys-dorothy-and-lewis-b-cullman-center) . The New York Public Library.
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11. MacMillan, Sarah (2005). "Friends of Rutgers - A Newsletter for Alumni and Friends of the
Department of English" (http://english.rutgers.edu/alumni/newsletter/spring_summer_05/bedw
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12. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Brent Hayes Edwards" (http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fell

ows/brent-hayes-edwards/) . www.gf.org. Guggenheim Foundation. Archived (https://web.arc
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13. "Guggenheim Fellowships awarded to three faculty, 16 alumni" (http://news.yale.edu/2015/04/1

4/guggenheim-fellowships-awarded-three-faculty-16-alumni) . Yale News. April 14, 2015.
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