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Gene Andrew Jarrett

gjarrett@bu.edu
Associate Professor.
Acting Director, Program in African American Studies (2009-2010). 
A.B., English, Princeton University; A.M., Ph.D., English, Brown University.

Teaching and Research Interests:

African American literature from the late eighteenth century until the present; American literature between the Civil War and World War II; race, ethnic, and cultural studies; theories of literature and aesthetics

Selected Publications:

Books Authored: Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007).

Books Edited: The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar (2009, co-edited with Herbert Woodward Martin and Ronald Primeau); The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (2007, co-edited with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.); A Long Way from Home by Claude McKay (2007); African American Literature beyond Race: An Alternative Reader (2006); The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar (2006, co-edited with Thomas Lewis Morgan).

Scholarly Articles, Review Essays, and Book Chapters: “Douglass, Ideological Slavery, and Postbellum Racial Politics,” The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass (2009); “Second-Generation Realist; or, Dunbar the Naturalist,” African American Review (2007); “Racial Uplift and the Politics of African American Fiction,” The Blackwell Concise Companion to American Fiction (2007); “Addition by Subtraction: Toward a Literary History of Racial Representation,” Legacy (2007); “New Negro Politics,” American Literary History (2006); “‘For Endless Generations’: Myth, Dynasty, and Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow,” Southern Literary Journal (2006); “African American Noms de Plume,” and editor, reprint of Ann Petry’s “Marie of the Cabin Club,” PMLA (2006); “The Black Arts Movement and Its Scholars,” American Quarterly (2005); “Entirely Black Verse from Him Would Succeed: Minstrel Realism and William Dean Howells,” Nineteenth-Century Literature (2005); “‘We Must Write Like the White Men’: Race, Realism, and Dunbar’s Anomalous First novel,” Novel (2004); “‘This Expression Shall Now Be Changed’: Irrelevant Episodes, Jim’s Humanity Revisited, and Retracing Mark Twain’s Evasion in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” American Literary Realism (2002)

Works in Progress:

Books Authored: Representing the Race: The Politics of African American Literature from Jefferson to Obama (literary history, completed); Paul Laurence Dunbar: The First African American Poet Laureate (literary biography, in progress).

Books Edited: The Blackwell Companion to African American Literature (collection of scholarly essays, in progress); The Collected Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar (collection of Dunbar’s correspondence, in progress; co-edited with Thomas Lewis Morgan).

Honors, Grants, and Awards: Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship (2005-2006); Graduate Research Board Support Award, University of Maryland (2004, 2005); Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002); Postdoctoral Fellowship, David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora, University of Maryland (2002-2003)

Websites of Relevance:

Lectures, Articles, and Interviews:

The Connelly Lecturer in English, Grinnell College: http://www.grin.edu/academic/english/connelly/

Lecturer, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University; Harvard Gazette Feature: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/12.06/15-jarrett.html

Interview for Black History Month, BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/node/6257

Books:

Deans and Truants: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14282.html

The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar: http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/The+Collected+Novels+of+Paul+Laurence+Dunbar

The New Negro: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8492.html

A Long Way from Home: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__A_Long_Way_from_Home_2663.html

African American Literature beyond Race: http://www.nyupress.org/books/African_American_Literature_Beyond_Race-products_id-4782.html

The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar: http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/The+Complete+Stories+of+Paul+Laurence+Dunbar