Students and faculty are invited to join us for breakfast and conversation with Gene Jarrett, Seryl Kushner Dean, College of Arts and Science, New York University.

Before New York University, Dean Jarrett was at Boston University, where he was Professor of English and served as Acting Director of African American studies, Chair of the Department of English, and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities. Jarrett has written two books and edited eight more that altogether examine the longstanding negotiations of African American writers with racial representation—that is, with the formal and thematic process of portraying race in progressive ways, and thus with the question of how much this literary process exists in dialectical relation to political ideology and action. His writings have also tried to account more broadly for how American critics, cultural institutions, and commercial marketplaces have registered the aesthetics and politics of racial representation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For his recent scholarly work, he has been awarded fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the American Council of Learned Societies.

For a complete biography, see Dean Jarrett’s NYU Faculty Profile.

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