Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University.  He earned his A.B. in English from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University.  Jarrett is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism.  He is the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Editorial Advisory Board Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton UniversityJoanna Brooks, San Diego State UniversityMargo Natalie Crawford, Cornell UniversityMadhu Dubey, University of Illinois, ChicagoMichele Elam, Stanford UniversityPhilip Gould, Brown UniversityGeorge B. Hutchinson, Cornell UniversityMarlon B. Ross, University of VirginiaCherene M. Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, MadisonJames Edward Smethurst, University of Massachusetts, AmherstWerner Sollors, Harvard UniversityJohn Stauffer, Harvard UniversityJeffrey Allen Tucker, University of RochesterIvy G. Wilson, Northwestern University

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University.  He earned his A.B. in English from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University.  Jarrett is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism.  He is the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Editorial Advisory Board Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton UniversityJoanna Brooks, San Diego State UniversityMargo Natalie Crawford, Cornell UniversityMadhu Dubey, University of Illinois, ChicagoMichele Elam, Stanford UniversityPhilip Gould, Brown UniversityGeorge B. Hutchinson, Cornell UniversityMarlon B. Ross, University of VirginiaCherene M. Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, MadisonJames Edward Smethurst, University of Massachusetts, AmherstWerner Sollors, Harvard UniversityJohn Stauffer, Harvard UniversityJeffrey Allen Tucker, University of RochesterIvy G. Wilson, Northwestern University

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Boston University.  He earned his A.B. in English from Princeton University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in English from Brown University.  Jarrett is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (2011) and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (2007), and the editor or co-editor of several volumes and collections of African American literature and literary criticism.  He is the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Editorial Advisory Board Daphne A. Brooks, Princeton UniversityJoanna Brooks, San Diego State UniversityMargo Natalie Crawford, Cornell UniversityMadhu Dubey, University of Illinois, ChicagoMichele Elam, Stanford UniversityPhilip Gould, Brown UniversityGeorge B. Hutchinson, Cornell UniversityMarlon B. Ross, University of VirginiaCherene M. Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin, MadisonJames Edward Smethurst, University of Massachusetts, AmherstWerner Sollors, Harvard UniversityJohn Stauffer, Harvard UniversityJeffrey Allen Tucker, University of RochesterIvy G. Wilson, Northwestern University