Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies;

Ph.D., Yale University. 

Books

• “Who Set You Flowin’?:”  The African-American Migration Narrative. 
  (New York:  Oxford University Press, 1995)
• If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery:  In Search of Billie Holiday
  (New York:  The Free Press, 2001.)
• Book-in-progress Miles Davis and John Coltrane (tentative title)
  co-authored with Salim Washington.
  (New York:  Thomas Dunne, Forthcoming 2005)

Edited Collections

• Stranger in the Village:  Two Centuries of African American Travel Writing.
  (Boston:  Beacon, 1998.)
  Co-edited with Cheryl Fish.
• Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends:
  Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland,
  and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868.
  Edited volume
  (New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)
  Nominated for 2000 NAACP Image Award, Best nonfiction Literary Work.
• Transforming Traditions:  African, African-American and Africana Studies in the 21st Century Special issue edited with Laura Chrisman and Tukufu Zuberi
  Black Scholar vol. 30, No. 3-4.
• Jazz Poetics
  special issue edited with Brent Hayes Edwards and Maria Damon
  Callaloo 25.1 9 Winter 2002.
  Runner-up, Best Special issue Award, Council of Editors of Learned Journals, 2002
• Notes and Introduction for Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois.
  (Barnes & Nobles Classic Texts, Fine Media, 2003)
• Uptown Conversation:  The New Jazz Studies
  edited with Robert G. O’Meally and Brent Hayes Edwards
  (Columbia University Press, 2004)
• Notes and Introduction for Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  by Linda Brent
  (Barnes & Nobles Classic Texts, Fine Media, Forthcoming, 2005)
  Rethinking the Americas Series at University of Pennsylvania Press
  Series Editor along with Houston Baker, Jr. Eric Cheyfitz, and Joan Dayan.

Contact

Professor Griffin’s office is located in 508 Philosophy Hall.
Phone: (212) 854-6411
E-mail: fjg8@columbia.edu