Brian Roberts

Brian Russell Roberts is Professor of English, Humanities College Professor, and Director of American Studies at Brigham Young University. He specializes in African American literature and culture, as well as American cultures as they have intersected with oceans and islands. His first book was Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era (University of Virginia Press, 2013). Since then he has published two edited collections: Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung (Duke University Press, 2016, co-edited with Kieth Foulcher), and Archipelagic American Studies (Duke University Press, 2017), co-edited with Michelle Ann Stephens. Also, in 2018, with Keith Foulcher and Harry Aveling, he published the collaboratively translated a book of short stories, Oceans of Longing, by the Indonesian modernist Sitor Situmorang. Most recently, he has published Borderwaters: Amid the Archipelagic States of America (Duke University Press, 2021). Roberts was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Universitas Sebelas Maret in Indonesia in 2015.