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After graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Morehouse College, Irvin Hunt went on to receive an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in English and American literature. Awarded the Ford Fellowship for Graduate Study, he then enrolled as a Ph.D. student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has received two M.A.s. Hunt's department also awarded him the John W. Kluge Fellowship for a New Generation of Faculty Excellence. In 2005, he released a book of letters titled Family. He has published articles in the Maroon Tiger and Independent School. In 2010, he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show as an Oprah Scholar. Currently, Hunt is writing a dissertation on the politics of humor during the Civil Rights Movement.