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I attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, where I pursued my dual academic interests in English and Mathematics. Afterward, I matriculated at Princeton University, where I earned a bachelor's degree in English language and literature, along with certificates of proficiency in American Studies, African American Studies, and Applied and Computational Mathematics. I was drawn especially to African American Studies, whose focus on race and culture enabled me to understand the world in which I lived as well as my own identity in more sophisticated ways. After Princeton, I completed a doctoral study in English language and literature at Brown University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1623692169149-PPPPR3TIKHDO8HEEF803/Gene+Jarrett+sitting+at+desk.jpeg About - Career as a Professor & Administrator Today, I am Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University. Prior to this role, I worked as a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park; Boston University, where I also served as Chair of the English Department and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities; and New York University, where I was Dean of the College of Arts and Science. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1623701782197-FXSXG4BCX2VHTICYACBQ/image-placeholder-title.jpg About - Scholarship I specialize in African American literary history from the eighteenth century to the present; U.S. literary history between the Civil War and World War II; race, ethnic, and cultural studies; and theories of literature, aesthetics, and intellectual historiography. I am the author of two books and the editor of eight more on African American literature and literary criticism. For this scholarship I have won awards from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the American Council of Learned Societies. My third authored book, a comprehensive biography of the legendary African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, is slated for release from Princeton University Press in 2022, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the poet’s birth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1623694686115-57BOLB9B52XIMORKSE5K/Gene+Jarrett+speaking.jpg About - Awards & Honors Phi Beta Kappa (Honorary Inductee), Epsilon of Massachusetts, Boston University, 2014 ACLS Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2014 Walter Jackson Bate Fellowship in English Literature, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2010 Third Annual Peter Connelly Lecturer in English, Grinnell College, 2009 American Library Association “Best of the Best from the University Presses” for The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 2007 Career Enhancement Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2005 Postdoctoral Fellowship, David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, 2002 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1997 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1623789196226-TEOMMJRMTSMNSWJF9AP1/Gene+and+son.jpg About - Life & Family As a child, my parents were always talking with me about how education is a pathway toward opportunities. My father used to say to me, “The harder you work, the luckier you get.” Today, I am married to Dr. Renée Boynton-Jarrett; she and I both were first-year students at Princeton when we first met. She is a professor at Boston University School of Medicine, pediatrician and social epidemiologist, and together we have three children--two daughters and a son. 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Princeton University: By Gene Jarrett March 8, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/3c365314-3dc2-4e54-9c03-1eaca5eb0bfc/LABR.jpg News - The Legacy of a Caged Bird: On Gene Andrew Jarrett’s “Paul Laurence Dunbar” The Dunbar Hotel is a cultural landmark of Black heritage in Los Angeles, though it didn’t always bear the name of writer Paul Laurence Dunbar. Los Angeles Review of Books: By Vesper North November 17, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/db833b79-ca20-41b9-9e51-a5376fe60174/Book+Riots.jpg News - The Best Biographies of 2022 Book Riot lists Gene Andrew Jarrett's new book, Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird, as one of their best biographies of 2022. 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The New Yorker October 26, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/0b517de4-a82d-441d-b19d-2e1120c1a4e4/princeton+alumni+weekly.jpg News - Faculty Book: Gene Andrew Jarrett ’97 on Paul Laurence Dunbar Gene Andrew Jarrett details the celebrations and struggles of the “poet laureate of his race.” Princeton Alumni Weekly October 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/21144467-6cfc-4bf0-b952-f29add172ce0/Cool+CLeveland.jpg News - Book review: A New Look at Paul Laurence Dunbar by C. Ellen Connally Peter Jones from Cool Cleveland reviews Gene Andrew Jarrett's new book, Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird. 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In a new biography, the Princeton University English professor Gene Andrew Jarrett takes Dunbar’s rather glum, shortish life and pulls off a book that pulls you along like an open bag of potato chips; for the first 100 or so pages, I could barely put it down. The New York Times: By John McWhorter August 12, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/ea95186d-34b0-4e6c-925f-01c5e4a68ea2/seattles+child.jpg News - Book Picks: ‘This Is a School’ Celebrates Friendship and Learning Looking for some reading inspiration? Here’s a peek at what KCLS staff and the young readers in their lives are digging into this month! 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The Washington Post: By Gene Andrew Jarrett June 30, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/140be13c-ee00-4343-90a2-8975793cc70e/art-fuse.jpg News - Book Review: “Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird” — A Writer’s Life This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Black American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and this new biography does a thorough and compelling job in telling the story of a remarkable and partially tragic life. The Art Fuse: By David Mehegan June 29, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/2899e78e-c862-4b08-bf24-d9b8e61893cc/orville-wright-flight.jpg News - How One of America’s Most Influential Black Writers Befriended a Pioneering American Aviator Paul Laurence Dunbar, a prodigious black poet, and Orville Wright, a precocious white inventor, became entrepreneurial partners in a short-lived newspaper circulated in Dayton, Ohio, called the Dayton Tattler. As classmates in Central High School, Paul and Orville respected each other as collaborators who could launch the periodical close to Christmastime in 1890. Literary Hub: By Gene Andrew Jarrett June 27, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/d7c1420b-f35a-4e04-a279-0fdd72dfc18e/GeneJarrett_B2.jpg News - Gene Jarrett Takes Us Back to the Gilded Age in His New Biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar Gene Jarrett, Princeton’s dean of the faculty and the William S. Tod Professor of English, has taught students about Paul Laurence Dunbar for two decades and published book articles and chapters on the popular and accomplished writer. But it wasn’t until 2008 that Jarrett decided to tackle a biography of Dunbar, who rose to prominence in the Gilded Age. 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Princeton Alumni Weekly: By Carlett Spike June 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/d9bbbd34-2580-499c-a504-b4bb482efe26/12newlypub-videoSixteenByNineJumbo1600.jpg News - Newly Published, from Quarantine Love to Hemingway A selection of books was published in this week's New York Times, plus a peek a what the newsroom is reading. The New York Times June 8, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/7a183313-b6aa-407b-801f-867f24d26ee1/Publishers-weekly.jpg News - Book review: Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird “The result is a fascinating exploration of Black creativity wrestling with social constraints and personal failings.” Publishers Weekly June 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/07f06c5e-1921-4c5e-85fa-17a1f0680c17/Screen+Shot+2022-06-16+at+3.23.10+PM.png News - 17 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer New York magazine's Vulture has ranked Gene Andrew Jarrett's newly published book Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird as #5 on their list of books we can't wait to read this summer. Vulture: Contributions by Maddie Crum, Derek Guy, Hillary Kelly, Jordan Taliha McDonald, Rina Nkulu, Mary Retta, and Omari Weekes May 27, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/5e3ccb2b-6afc-42dc-b8d3-4046cc6b728a/Kirk.jpg News - Book review: Impressive research informs a sensitive literary biography “Jarrett offers astute readings of all of Dunbar’s works and a perceptive examination of his fraught courtship, engagement, and marriage to Alice Moore, which was threatened by Dunbar’s “weakness for drink” and philandering.” Kirkus April 15, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/ad5f463f-da37-428c-ad23-253ea08b2c71/image.jpg News - 56 New Books We Can't Wait To Read In 2022 Essence magazine has ranked Gene Andrew Jarrett's newly published book Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird as #54 on their list of new books we can't wait to read. Essence: By Keyaira Boone February 8, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1622838295192-Z3N38ZAGRJWU3G31AASW/20170816_CL_DJA_152%281%29.jpg News - Gene Andrew Jarrett named Princeton’s next dean of the faculty Gene Andrew Jarrett, the Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science (CAS) and Professor of English at New York University, will become Princeton’s next dean of the faculty. Princeton University: By Emily Aronson May 27, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1621532385089-WXOEECTNPPKKK17ZDK3O/Painting_of_Bronte%CC%88_sisters.png News - Why do Women Write Under Men’s Names? From George Eliot and the Brontës to JK Rowling, women writers have often chosen to publish their work using a pseudonym. It’s time to smash the myths about why they do it. Gene Andrew Jarrett is quoted in this article. BBC News: By Holly Williams September 3, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1621532688893-6N677MNI5NAPE1RY24SO/20-0624-061.jpg News - CAS Dean Gene Jarrett: A Semester In When College of Arts and Science Seryl Kushner Dean Gene Jarrett started his job at NYU last September, he wasn’t simply moving to New York City for a job — he was returning home. Washington Square News: By Natasha Roy March 19, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1621532911003-TD2INR91XU0USQIY84W2/casey-schackow--AKCbfcGpl8-unsplash.jpg News - New CAS Dean Gene Jarrett Returns Home to New York Washington Square News sat down with Jarrett during just his second week on the job to discuss what deans do on a day-to-day basis, diversity at NYU, and what it was like growing up in New York City. Washington Square News: By Sayer Devlin September 25, 2017 https://www.geneandrewjarrett.com/press-kit daily 0.75 2022-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/a0c300b5-4607-43d8-acf7-4af77295deae/Author+photo+-+credit+Denise+Applewhite.JPG Press Kit - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1621535354144-B95CWNQIHUV6UUJU6W6H/IMG_2354.PNG Press Kit - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.geneandrewjarrett.com/authored-books daily 0.75 2021-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1622827524091-KV94Y73IVCICWQ27ERRA/Representing+the+Race+book+cover.jpg Authored Books - Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature In this book, I analyze the political value of African American literature from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. I examine texts ranging from pamphlets and autobiographies to poems and fiction so that I could parse the myths that have come to define African American political activism in recent decades. “Gene Andrew Jarrett’s Representing the Race is an ambitious, engaging, and intelligent attempt to reconsider the relationship between African American literature and political history...Representing the Race should be of value to anyone interested in the political and social relevance of African American literature.” — Andrew B. Leiter, Studies in American Culture Available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1622827543754-OTYU5FRDI4WMZVWK9CT5/Deans+and+Truants+book+cover.jpg Authored Books - Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature In this book, I trace the shifting definitions of African American literature and the authors who wrote beyond those boundaries at the cost of critical dismissal and, at times, obscurity. I show that, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, de facto literary deans prescribed the shifting parameters of realism and racial subject matter appropriate to authentic African American literature, while truant African American authors wrote literature anomalous to those standards. “While challenging the standard notion of black literature, this readable, engaging work also provides insightful analyses of such understudied works as Morrison's short story 'Recitatif,' Yerby's historical novel The Foxes of Harrow, and Schuyler's satirical novel Black No More.” — Choice Available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1622827563391-CXXZ0O8CIB3IB8GZL3XB/Wiley+Blackwell+Anthology+book+cover.jpg Authored Books - The Wiley-Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 1: 1746-1920 & Volume 2: 1920-Present) I edited a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, this is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium. “Expansive, instructive, fascinating and surprising, this magnificent anthology is pieced together with superb editorial judgment and offers insights on every page. Here is a rich, many-voiced literary tradition unfolding across the centuries in all its exhilarating diversity and unmatched power. Certain to become seminal and essential, this is a treasure that belongs on all our bookshelves.” ― Zoe Trodd, University of Nottingham Available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1622827582765-X9IRVVIOTDSZ66SBIVEU/African+American+Literature+book+cover.jpg Authored Books - A Companion to African American Literature I compiled and edited a series of essays by fellow scholars that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches to African American Literature. “A master archivist and historian of African American literature, Gene Jarrett has assembled a compelling new collection of essays for this necessary addition to the study of African American writing and thought. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the African American canon, but also goes in new directions, giving fresh emphasis to the earliest writing of African Americans as well as to the exciting field of Latino/-a writing in the African Diaspora. This is a field-defining collection.” — Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1622827608920-J9XQI8LOJ20ICVS0V3C9/The+Collected+Novels+of+Paul+Dunbar+book+cover.jpg Authored Books - The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar I co-edited and reprinted the four novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar, in which readers can explore the characters, landscape, atmosphere, and visionary sensibilities of this preeminent African American writer. “This collection shows that (Dunbar) was on his way to becoming a great novelist when he died in 1906.” — Dayton Daily News Available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1622829484463-T8EG5R0ZA2BQJU0UVIZL/New+Negro+book+cover.jpg Authored Books - The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture With Henry Louis Gates, Jr., I co-edited a collection of more than one hundred canonical and lesser-known essays published between 1892 and 1938 that examine the issues of race and representation in African American culture. “The New Negro is a valuable collection of essays that is accessible to scholars, teachers, and those generally interested in African-American history. When placed within the context of recent New Negro scholarship, the anthology reinforces the need to expand the depth and breadth of research into Post-Reconstruction representations of race in African-American culture.” — Gabriel A. Briggs, Callaloo Available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1622829508647-54O0AMQYLYVX66O2EUY3/Long+Way+from+Home+book+cover.jpg Authored Books - A Long Way from Home, by Claude McKay I edited and reprinted the 1937 autobiography, A Long Way from Home, by Claude McKay, one of the most prolific and sophisticated African American writers of the early twentieth century. This book will challenge readers to rethink McKay’s articulation of identity, art, race, and politics, and to situate these topics in terms of his oeuvre and his literary contemporaries between the World Wars. Available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1622830293160-5VTN5ZRX1DJE5ZIL8H5V/African+American+Beyond+Race+book+cover.jpg Authored Books - African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader In this book, I provided a companion-piece to Deans and Truants, editing and reprinting a variety of non-canonical fiction avoiding racial realism, such as African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse. “As intriguing as it is provocative, this volume requires us to probe the reasons why these texts or authors have been red-lined from the canons of both American literature and African American literature. Bravo to Jarrett and his all-star cast of contributors for helping us re-imagine our literary heritage in fresh and constructive ways!” — Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University Available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/1622830724741-EQQR8X7EFEKOR1F32SZA/The+Complete+Stories+of+Paul+Dunbar+book+cover.jpg Authored Books - The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar In this book, I co-edited and reprinted the 104 stories written by Paul Laurence Dunbar between 1890 and 1905, which reveal his attempts to maintain his artistic integrity while struggling with America’s racist stereotypes. “What we have been presented with here is a Herculean task of scholarship.” ― Ohioana Quarterly Available at: Amazon Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org https://www.geneandrewjarrett.com/videos-podcasts daily 0.75 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/0f438377-b981-4eca-a630-9a029b118dd8/Screenshot+2023-08-09+at+12.36.54+PM.png Videos & Podcasts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/990c934f-97fe-42eb-92fb-588e3c5cee61/Screenshot+2023-08-09+at+12.23.34+PM.png Videos & Podcasts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.geneandrewjarrett.com/new-book daily 0.75 2022-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/609ffecc379e6d7fe1fd2f0f/f7f8f9d9-f080-4112-a6c5-e9c37af9dcd2/453.jpg NEW Book - Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird On the 150th anniversary of his birth a definitive new biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history. 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