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  • Mitchell Edwards
  • Mitchell Edwards
  • PhD Candidate
  • At Rutgers Since: 2021
  • Primary Areas of Specialization: Cold War-era culture and politics; bibliography and book history; radical print cultures; the sociology of literature; movement literatures; literature and institutions
  • Field of Interest: African-American & Diaspora, Book and Media History, Twentieth Century
  • About:

    Mitchell Edwards is a PhD candidate in English at Rutgers. His research considers the social and political uses of literature in twentieth-century America. He is at work on a dissertation about post-1945 movement literatures, from the Beats to Toni Morrison’s circle. The project reconstructs the collaborative literary culture sustained by these movements, bringing bibliographical and archival methods to bear on their print networks and infrastructures.

    Mitchell is also a member of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book and graduate fellow for the Black Bibliography Project.
  • Undergraduate Courses Taught:

    359:360 – Reading as a Printer

    359:201 – Principles of Literary Study
  • Other Publications:

    "Flip This House: Caroline Emmerton's Activist Hermeneutics and The House of the Seven Gables." The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 51, no. 2 (forthcoming April 2026).

    "'Heaven save the market!': Henry James in the Fin de Siècle Literary Field." The Henry James Review 45, no. 2 (2024): 171-186. https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2024.a926113.
  • Education: A.B. Harvard University, May 2018