Gene Andrew Jarrett

Professor of English

Email: gjarrett@bu.edu
Phone: 617-358-2554
A.B. English, Princeton University; A.M., Ph.D. English, Brown University

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University. He is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007).  He is the editor or co-editor of multiple volumes on African American literature and literary criticism, including A Companion to African American Literature (2010); The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar (2009); The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (2007); A Long Way from Home by Claude McKay (2007); The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar (2006); and African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader (2006).  He is now writing a a book on the literature, life and times of Paul Laurence Dunbar.