Erica R. Edwards, Professor of African American Studies and English at Yale University, will deliver the 2023 edition of the Stone Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, November 14th at 6:30PM in the Stone Center Auditorium.
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Prof. Edwards is the author of The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of U.S. Empire (NYU Press, 2021), which was awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association, earned an honorable mention for the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize, and was a finalist for the National Women Studies Assocation’s Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s Book Prize, and the Prose Award in Literature from the Association of American Publishers.
Her first book, Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), was awarded the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize. Edwards is the co-editor, with Roderick Ferguson and Jeffrey Ogbar, of Keywords for African American Studies.
Prof. Edwards’ work on African American literature, politics, and gender critique has appeared in journals such as differences, Callaloo, American Quarterly, and American Literary History, and her public-facing work has appeared in venues such as The Washington Post, Public Books, and A-Line: A Journal of Progressive Thought. Before moving to Yale, Edwards taught at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and the University of California, Riverside.
She founded the Lindon Barrett Scholars Mentoring Program and the UC Center for Black Studies in California.
Prof. Edwards, who directs Graduate Studies in African American Studies at Yale, holds a Ph.D. in Literature at Duke University and a B.A. in English and Spanish, from Spelman College.
Before going to Yale, Prof. Edwards taught at Rutgers University and at the University of California, Riverside.
Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Institute of Citizens & Scholars, the Mellon Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.