Farah Griffin
Acting · Born Feb 23, 1963 · 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.
