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Gene Jarrett
gjarrett@bu.edu

Associate Professor. A.B. Princeton; A.M., Ph.D. Brown

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

Selected Publications: Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007); Co-ed., The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 (2007); Ed., A Long Way from Home by Claude McKay (2007); Ed., African American Literature beyond Race: An Alternative Reader (2006); Co-ed., The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar (2006); “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 ed., 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: Ed., The Blackwell Companion to African American Literature; monograph on racial representation and the politics of African American literature

Honors/Grants/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)