Jarrett, Gene

Gene Andrew Jarrett is Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Boston University. He is the author of "Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature", and the editor of several books, including "African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader", also published by NYU Press. He also won a Walter Jackson Bate fellowship from Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2010.