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Jarrett was born on April 21, 1975, in New York City to Jamaican immigrants. His parents instilled him with strong values of hard work and education. “They were always talking about how education is a pathway toward opportunities,” he mentioned in an interview. “My father used to say to me: the harder you work, the luckier you get.”

Gene Andrew Jarrett (born April 21, 1975) is an African American professor, literary scholar, and academic administrator. He is the Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science (CAS) and Professor of English at New York University.

In 1993, Jarrett matriculated at Princeton University. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English language and literature. Since Princeton disallows double majors, he earned three certificates of proficiency in American Studies, African American Studies, and Applied and Computational Mathematics. He wrote a senior thesis titled “The Narrative Economy of Race in the Novels of William Faulkner,” under the directorship of Eduardo Cadava. Jarrett was drawn especially to African American studies: “Because I am a person of African descent, the issues regarding race and culture interested me in terms of understanding the world in which I lived and gave me a chance to learn more about myself.”

Gene Andrew Jarrett is married to Renée Boynton-Jarrett, a professor at Boston University School of Medicine. A pediatrician and social epidemiologist, she is the founding director of the Vital Village Community Engagement Network. Both met as first-year students at Princeton University and in a few years got engaged there; they married in 1997. Together they have two daughters and a son.

As Jarrett was finishing his doctorate at Brown, he received job offers to be an assistant professor of English from Boston University and the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2002, Jarrett chose the University of Maryland to start his career as a professor. He earned tenure there within five years, by the age of 32.

By the time Jarrett graduated from Princeton, he had won an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies and decided to pursue doctoral study in English language and literature at Brown University. After five years at Brown, he earned his doctorate in English in 2002.

Jarrett’s first book, Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), came out of his original belief, first widely noted in his article for the Chronicle of Higher Education, that “[a]lthough readers know by heart ‘not to judge a book by its cover,’ they are still likely to remain superficial and prejudge the content of a book based on the author’s skin color.” Jarrett’s theorizing of “racial realism” has become the basis of a field of inquiry in which “writers of color have historically to be hampered by the narrative structure of realism, a structure that resists the depiction of racial experience.” The next book Jarrett wrote, Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature (New York University Press, 2011), parses the myths of authenticity, popular culture, nationalism, and militancy that have come to define African American political activism in recent decades.

Over the course of his career Jarrett has served in academic administration. His major roles include, in the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, Interim Director of African American Studies from 2009 to 2010, Chair of the Department of English from 2011 to 2014, and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities from 2014 to 2017.

Jarrett has recently completed writing a comprehensive biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Dayton-born African American poet of the turn of the 20th century. To support his writing of the biography, in 2010, Jarrett won the Walter Jackson Bate Fellowship in English Literature from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Four years later, he won the ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Prior to his current role at NYU, he worked at Boston University, where he served as Chair of the English Department from 2011 to 2014 and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities from 2014 to 2017. At BU he was a professor in the Department of English and the Program in African American Studies. Prior to that, he was a professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Upon receiving tenure at the University of Maryland, Boston University reached out again. The offer of a tenured professorship in the English Department, with a joint appointment in the Program in African American Studies, finally lured him to BU. Within five years, in early 2012, he was promoted to full professor at the age of 36, making him one of the youngest faculty at that rank in the entire University. After a decade, Jarrett left BU for NYU, where his appointment as Professor of English accompanied his appointment as Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science.

The three books written by Jarrett have spawned eight additional books of African American literature and literary criticism, including the Wiley-Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, the first comprehensive anthology of African American literature to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium. Jarrett is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies, a module published online by Oxford University Press, and providing bibliographic articles that identify, organize, cite, and annotate scholarship on key areas of African American Studies—culture, politics, law, history, society, religion, and economics.

In June 2017, Jarrett was named Seryl Kushner Dean of NYU’s College of Arts and Science, and reports to the President and the Provost; his appointment began on September 1, 2017. Among his responsibilities at NYU, Jarrett provides innovative vision and leadership for setting undergraduate academic standards and policies in CAS; updating current and developing new academic programs; and fundraising to improve the access, affordability, and advancement of higher education.

As Associate Dean for the Humanities, Jarrett regularly lobbied as a Massachusetts delegate of the National Humanities Alliance on Capitol Hill for greater federal funding of the humanities, which had for years been contending with threatened budget cuts. “The NEH and NEA are crucial for supporting not only the scholarly or creative work of faculty in higher education, especially at BU,” he said in 2017, “but they also fund the programming outside of our academic walls, such as public libraries and museums, which advance the early education of children and the civic education of people living in our communities. Slashing the support of these endowments would undercut the robust educational apparatus, with its attention to the diverse and free expression of ideas, that has distinguished our civic society since the Congressional creation of these endowments in 1965.”

While at Princeton Jarrett became a fellow of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. “The professional relationships I established as an undergraduate through Mellon Mays have persisted for decades,” he recalled. As a student he was especially influenced by the Princeton professors who focused on the lives of African Americans, including philosopher Cornel West, biographer Arnold Rampersad, and the Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. Morrison was one of his professors during both his junior and senior years. “She had blackboards in her office,” he recalled during an interview after she had passed away on August 5, 2019, “and she would have these kind of looping, perfectly proportional, symmetrical letters, and she would write these gorgeous words.” Jarrett said that when he decided to pursue a graduate degree “[Morrison] agreed to write me a letter of recommendation. And so, if it werenʼt for her, I wouldnʼt be where I am today.”

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