Brian T. Edwards
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Northwestern University
Brian T. Edwards teaches literature and cultural studies at Northwestern University, where he directs the Globalizing American Studies project. He is the author of Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express (2005). His new book project, “After the American Century,” examines the circulation of American culture and its forms in North Africa and the Middle East. He is a 2005 Carnegie Scholar.
In Public Culture
Selected Other Publications
- Marock in Morocco: Reading Moroccan Films in the Age of Circulation,” Journal of North African Studies 12.3 (2007): 287-307. Special issue on North African cinema.
- "Sheltering Screens: Paul Bowles and Foreign Relations," American Literary History 17.2 (Summer 2005), 307-34.
- "The Worlds of Paul Bowles," (PDF) Tingis: A Moroccan-American Magazine of Ideas and Culture 2.2 (Spring 2005), 14-22.
- "Preposterous Encounters: Interrupting American Studies with the (Post)colonial, or Casablanca in the American Century," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 23.1&2 (2003): 70-86. Special issue: "Comparative (Post)colonialisms."
- "Fanon's al-Jaza'ir, or Algeria translated", Parallax 8.2 (April-June 2002): 99-115.
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