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Brian T. Edwards
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
Occupation(s)Dean, Professor
OrganizationTulane University

Brian T. Edwards is dean of the School of Liberal Arts and professor of English at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Prior to moving to Tulane in 2018, he was on the faculty of Northwestern University, where he was the Crown Professor in Middle East Studies, professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, and the founding director of the Program in Middle East and North African Studies (MENA).[1][2]

Edwards's research has two main focuses: the globalization of American studies[3][4] and his theorization of "cultural circulation", especially vis-à-vis the Middle East and North Africa.[5][6]

Edwards is also an advocate for language learning at both university and K-12 levels,[7] and has served on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Commission on Language Learning.[8]

Career

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Education

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In 1990, Edwards earned his bachelor's degree magna cum laude[9] in English from Yale University.[1] He then received his master's degree, his master of philosophy degree, and his PhD in American studies from Yale.[1]

Work

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Edwards's first book, Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express (2005),[10] examines "the dynamics and select encounters between the Maghreb and the US from the early 1940s to the early 1970s", as Allen Hibbard writes in the journal Comparative Literature Studies.[11]

In the edited collection Globalizing American Studies (2010),[12] Edwards and his co-editor, Dilip P. Gaonkar, argue that the discipline of American studies "needs to allow space for alternative interpretations of the concept of 'America' as it is understood in different contexts outside the United States", as Meghan Warner Mettler says in The Journal of Asian Studies.[13]

Edwards's second book, After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East (2015),[14] considers the reception of US popular culture in Cairo, Casablanca, and Tehran to argue that American cultural influence in the Middle East has waned, according to John Waterbury in Foreign Affairs.[15]

Edwards has appeared in a number of public conversations in the media about US–MENA relations and cultural circulation, including on NPR,[16][17][18] PBS's WTTW,[19] NBC Chicago,[20] and Voice of America.[21] Edwards's podcast episode on Paul Bowles, "Baptism of Solitude",[22] which was produced with The Organist (McSweeney's and KCRW), was featured in Hyperallergic's "11 Great Art and Culture Podcast Episodes of 2017".[23]

Awards and honors

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Edwards was named a 2005 Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York under its Islam Initiative,[24] a 2008 New Directions Fellow by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,[25] and a Class of 2015 Emerging Leader by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.[26] Edwards also received Fulbright Senior Specialists Awards in American studies in 2009 and 2011.[27]

From 2016 to 2017, Edwards served on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Commission on Language Learning.[8] The Commission was charged by Congress to examine language education in the US and make recommendations for ways to meet future education needs, resulting in the report America’s Languages: Investing in Language Education for the 21st Century (2017).[28] The Commission's findings have been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle,[29] The Hill,[30] the Boston Herald,[31] Inside Higher Ed,[32][33] and the Association for Psychological Science.[34]

Controversy

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In 2024, Edwards was named in a federal Unfair Labor Practice charge against Tulane University for anti-union activities, including direct retaliation against union organizers.[35][36]

Personal life

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Edwards is married to Kate Baldwin,[9] who is Professor of English with joint appointments in the Department of Communication and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Tulane University.[37][38]

Publications

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Books

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Edited collections

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Selected journal articles

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  • “Hollywood Orientalism and the Maghreb,” boundary2 (online), The Maghreb after Orientalism (special b2o dossier), December 13, 2018.
  • “Islam,” in Keywords for American Cultural Studies, 3rd ed., edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler (NY: NYU Press, 2020), 137–141.
  • “Tahrir: Ends of Circulation,” Public Culture 23.3 (Fall 2011): 493–504.
  • “Logics and Contexts of Circulation,” in A Companion to Comparative Literature, edited by Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2011), 454–472.
  • “American Studies in Tehran,” Public Culture 19.3 (2007): 415–424.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Brian Edwards named dean of Tulane School of Liberal Arts". The Seattle Times. 2018-06-03. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
  2. ^ "Brian Edwards named dean of Tulane School of Liberal Arts". Associated Press. 2018-06-03. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
  3. ^ Giles, Paul (2017-03-01). "Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry: After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East (review)". American Literature. 89 (1): 194–196. doi:10.1215/00029831-3788801. ISSN 0002-9831.
  4. ^ Hibbard, Allen (2017-02-17). "After the American century: The ends of US culture in the Middle East". Interventions. 19 (2): 298–300. doi:10.1080/1369801X.2016.1250485. ISSN 1369-801X. S2CID 151341556.
  5. ^ Lubin, Alex (2017). "Brian Edwards, After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East (Review)". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 49 (1): 197–198. doi:10.1017/S0020743816001355. ISSN 0020-7438. S2CID 164786608.
  6. ^ a b Schueller, Malini Johar (2008). "Orientalizing American Studies". American Quarterly. 60 (2): 481–489. doi:10.1353/aq.0.0013. ISSN 1080-6490. S2CID 145168869.
  7. ^ "Teach Arabic at Public Schools? Why One Professor Says 'Yes'". WTTW News. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  8. ^ a b "Commission on Language Learning". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  9. ^ a b "Kathryn Baldwin, Brian Edwards". The New York Times. 1997-08-10. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
  10. ^ Edwards, Brian (2005-10-28). Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-8712-1.
  11. ^ Hibbard, Allen (2007). "Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express (review)". Comparative Literature Studies. 44 (1): 214–220. doi:10.1353/cls.2007.0033. ISSN 1528-4212. S2CID 161807606.
  12. ^ Edwards, Brian T.; Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar (2010-12-15). Globalizing American Studies. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-18507-1.
  13. ^ Mettler, Meghan Warner (2011). "Globalizing American Studies. Edited by Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 785 pp. 27.50 (paper)". The Journal of Asian Studies. 70 (3): 785–786. doi:10.1017/S0021911811000933. ISSN 1752-0401. S2CID 162393687.
  14. ^ Edwards, Brian T. (2015-12-01). After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-54055-1.
  15. ^ a b Waterbury, John (2016). "Capsule Review: After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  16. ^ "Lose yourself in Paul Bowles's 1959 Morocco tapes". KCRW. 2017-02-09. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  17. ^ "Reactions/Perceptions from Morocco of Trump Jerusalem Announcement". WBEZ Chicago. 2017-12-07. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  18. ^ "Weekend Passport: The Artist's Role in the Arab Spring". WBEZ Chicago. 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  19. ^ "Times Are Changing: Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature". WTTW News. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  20. ^ "The Talk: Egypt Crisis". NBC Chicago. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  21. ^ "Chicago Activist Documents Egyptian Turmoil Online | Voice of America – English". www.voanews.com. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  22. ^ "Episode 72: Baptism of Solitude: Paul Bowles's Morocco Tapes". KCRW. 2017-02-09. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
  23. ^ Meier, Allison (2017-09-04). "11 Great Art and Culture Podcast Episodes of 2017". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
  24. ^ Carnegie Corporation of New York. "Carnegie Corporation Announces 2005 Carnegie Scholars". Carnegie Corporation of New York. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  25. ^ The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. "New Directions Fellowships Recipients". The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  26. ^ "Emerging Leaders Class of 2015". Chicago Council on Urban Affairs. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  27. ^ "Fulbright Specialist Directory". Fulbright Specialist Program. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  28. ^ "America's Languages: Investing in Language Education for the 21st Century". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  29. ^ Panetta, Leon (2018-08-06). "Americans are losing out because so few speak a second language". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  30. ^ Tolliver, Sandy (2018-03-08). "Monolingualism diminishes America's stature on the world stage". TheHill. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  31. ^ "As you were saying: Students' lack of language skills 'a national emergency'". Boston Herald. 2018-02-17. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  32. ^ "Cutting the federal budget for language programs threatens America's security (essay)". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  33. ^ Flaherty, Colleen (2017-02-28). "Language Study as a National Imperative". www.insidehighered.com. Archived from the original on 2017-03-02. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
  34. ^ "Psychological Science Informs American Academy of Arts and Sciences Recommendations on Language Learning". APS Observer. 30 (4). 2017-03-31.
  35. ^ "National Labor Relations Board". National Labor Relations Board. 2024-05-24. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  36. ^ "Non-tenured Tulane faculty overwhelmingly vote to unionize". Louisiana Illuminator. 2024-06-19. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  37. ^ "Kate Baldwin, School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University". School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
  38. ^ "Interdisciplinary scholar and program builder named new liberal arts dean at Tulane". Tulane News. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
  39. ^ Hibbard, Allen (2007). "Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express (review)". Comparative Literature Studies. 44 (1): 214–220. doi:10.1353/cls.2007.0033. ISSN 1528-4212. S2CID 161807606.
  40. ^ Breu, Christopher (2007). "Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express (review)". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 27 (2): 489–492. doi:10.1215/1089201x-2007-025. ISSN 1548-226X. S2CID 145693489.
  41. ^ Rugh, Andrea B. (2016). "After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East by Brian T. Edwards (review)". The Middle East Journal. 70 (2): 342–343. ISSN 1940-3461.
  42. ^ Rhodes, Evan (2012). "Beyond the Exceptionalist Thesis, a Global American Studies 2.0". American Quarterly. 64 (4): 899–912. doi:10.1353/aq.2012.0055. ISSN 1080-6490. S2CID 144622954.
  43. ^ Rothlisberger, Leisa (2013). "Globalizing American Studies Edited by Brian T. Edwards and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar (review)". Comparative Literature Studies. 50 (4): 717–720. doi:10.5325/complitstudies.50.4.0717. ISSN 1528-4212.
  44. ^ Moraru, Christian (2012). "Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and: Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies, and: The Global Remapping of American Literature, and: Transnationalism in Practice: Essays on American Studies, Literature and Religion, and: Globalizing American Studies, and: Literature and Globalization: A Reader (review)". The Comparatist. 36 (1): 300–311. doi:10.1353/com.2012.0014. ISSN 1559-0887. S2CID 143673608.
  45. ^ "On the Ground | New directions in Middle East and Northern African studies". Retrieved 2021-07-28.
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