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Paul Edwards is an Assistant Professor of English and Dramatic Literature at New York University’s College of Arts & Science. His research focuses on Black performativity post-Emancipation, particularly in transatlantic contexts. He holds a Ph.D. from Boston University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.
Key research projects include The Black Wave: The New Negro Renaissance in Interwar Germany and Is Blackness a Drag?: Performance After Blackface. His work interrogates Black nationalist thought within modernity and its intersections with German modernism. He has held fellowships at Rutgers University and NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts.
Publications appear in Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, and German Studies Review. Awards include the 2022 Rotunda Outstanding Teacher Award and DAAD research grants. Edwards also served as book reviews editor for The Black Scholar and chairs the MLA Opera and Musical Performance Forum.
His research methodologies blend archival work in Germany, Austria, and the U.S. with interdisciplinary frameworks from performance, modernist, and Black studies. Current projects explore racial drag theory and the legacies of Blackface minstrelsy in contemporary performance.
