Brent Hayes EdwardsBrent Hayes Edwards (Ph.D. Columbia University), is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Blck Internationalism, which was awarded the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Studies Association and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies; and the forthcoming Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination. He is editor of PMLA. Read More Read Less