Robert O'Meally
Robert G. O’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has served on the faculty for thirty years. Founder and director of Columbia’s Center for Jazz Studies, O’Meally is the author of "The Craft of Ralph Ellison," "Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday," "The Jazz Singers," and "Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey". His edited volumes include "The Jazz Cadence of American Culture", "Living With Music: Ralph Ellison’s Essays on Jazz", "The Norton Anthology of African American Literature" (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), "Uptown Conversation" (with Brent Hayes Edwards and Farah Jasmine Griffin), "History and Memory in African American Culture" (with Genevieve Fabre), and the Barnes and Noble editions of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Frederick Douglass. For his production of a Smithsonian record set called "The Jazz Singers", he was nominated for a Grammy Award. The curator of exhibitions at Jazz at Lincoln Center (2006-2012), O’Meally also has co-curated exhibitions for the High Museum in Atlanta and for the Smithsonian Institution, including Romare Bearden’s "Black Odyssey", a traveling exhibition whose tour climaxed at Columbia University, where extensive programming—concerts, scholarly seminars, and complementary exhibitions—touched audiences on campus and throughout the Manhattan community as well as at Columbia’s global centers in Paris and Istanbul. He has held Guggenheim and Cullman Fellowships, among others. His new books include "The Romare Bearden Reader" (Duke University Press, 2019) and "Antagonistic Cooperation: Collage, Jazz, and American Fiction" (Columbia University Press, 2020). In 2018-2019, he was a fellow at Columbia University’s new Institute for Ideas and Imagination (Paris).
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Published 30 December 1979