Farah Jasmine Griffin (born 1963) is an American academic and professor specializing inAfrican-American literature. She is William B. Ransford Professor ofEnglish andComparative Literature andAfrican-American Studies,^[2] chair of theAfrican American and African Diaspora Studies Department,^[3] and Director Elect of the Columbia University Institute for Research in African American Studies atColumbia University.^[4]

She received her BA degree fromHarvard University in 1985. She completed her PhD fromYale University in 1992.^[5]

In 2021, she received aGuggenheim Fellowship.^[6]

• 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 Everwith 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 fromRebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, andAddie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, ed. (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)^[18][19]
• Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies, ed. withRobert G. O'Meally andBrent 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)

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