As part of the 2017–2018 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Erica R. Edwards RI ’18 shares her progress on her book “The Other Side of Terror: Blackness and the Culture of US Empire,” which argues that the making of US empire as a way of life throughout the long war on terror has transformed contemporary black writing.

Edwards is the Presidential Term Chair in African American Literature and an associate professor of English at Rutgers University. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/erica-r-edwards

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