Erica R. Edwards

Erica R. Edwards is Professor of African American Studies and English at Yale University. She is author of The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire (2021), which won the American Studies Association’s John Hope Franklin Prize, and Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (2012), which received the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize. She is the co-editor of Keywords for African American Literature (2018).