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Farah Griffin

Born: 1963-02-23 • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Farah Jasmine Griffin (born 1963) is an American academic and professor specializing in African-American literature. She is William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies, chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department,and Director Elect of the Columbia University Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University.

She received her BA degree from Harvard University in 1985. She completed her PhD from Yale University in 1992.

In 2021, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Filmography
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019 • Self - Writer
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Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015 • Self