Farah Griffin

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,^[2] chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department,^[3] and Director Elect of the Columbia University Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University.^[4]

She received her BA degree from Harvard University in 1985. She completed her PhD from Yale University in 1992.^[5]

In 2021, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[6]