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FT-52871-04	Research Programs: Summer Stipends	Tess Eufamia Chakkalakal	Literary Fellows: James Weldon Johnson and Brander Matthews	6/1/2004 - 9/30/2004	$5,000.00	Tess	Eufamia	Chakkalakal				Presidents and Trustees of Williams College	Williamstown	MA	01267-2600	USA	2004	Literature, General	Summer Stipends	Research Programs	5000	0	5000	0	Brander Matthews, a leading critic of American literature in the 1890s, played a pivotal role in the making of the first modern African American novel: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson. Yet Matthews’s connection to Johnson and the African American literary tradition has received little critical attention. A comparison of their literary projects reveals striking similarities. This project examines Johnson’s connection to Matthews’s ideas on literature and their importance to shaping the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.