Jesse McCarthy
· Ph.D. in English, Princeton University 2018, M.A. in English, Princeton University 2013, B.A. English, Amherst College 2006Harvard University · African and African American Studies
Active 1957–2024
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About
Jesse McCarthy is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and of the Social Sciences in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in English from Princeton University and a B.A. in English from Amherst College. His research interests encompass the novel, African American literature, African diaspora literatures, postwar literary history, American literature, Black studies, modernism, aesthetics, film, intellectual history, the history of criticism, French literature, poetics, and translation. McCarthy has authored several books, including 'The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War,' which is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. He also published 'Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? Essays,' which won the 2022 Whiting Award for Nonfiction, and 'The Fugitivities: A Novel.' Additionally, he has contributed as a co-editor and editor to various critical editions and anthologies, notably editing W. E. B. Du Bois's 'The Souls of Black Folk' and serving as a section editor for the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. McCarthy's scholarly work includes peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on topics such as literary aesthetics, racial identity, and modernist literature. He has been involved in digital humanities projects, notably co-founding The Shakespeare and Company Project based on Sylvia…
Research topics
- Medicine
- Internal medicine
- Emergency medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Physical therapy
- Psychiatry
Selected publications
Toward Dynamic Data-Driven Systems for Rapid Adaptive Interdisciplinary Ocean Forecasting
2023-01-01 · 1 citations
book-chapterThe role of the college president in senior management evaluation systems.
Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst) · 2023-08-15
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingEducation
A 55-Year-Old Indigenous Woman from Australia With a Widespread Exfoliating Rash and Sepsis
Elsevier eBooks · 2020-10-21
book-chapterSenior author
Recent grants
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Culturally Influenced Environmental Narratives
NSF · $18k · 2019–2020
Frequent coauthors
- 25 shared
Kenneth J. Noonan
Ospedale Bellaria
- 20 shared
Edward J. Carpenter
San Francisco State University
- 19 shared
Allan R. Robinson
Harvard University Press
- 18 shared
Randal R. Betz
- 16 shared
Shahriar Salamat
University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 16 shared
Lillian Su
Phoenix Children's Hospital
- 16 shared
Jean A. Mitchell
National Institutes of Health
- 16 shared
José Torrealba
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Education
- 2018
Ph.D., English
Princeton University
- 2013
M.A., English
Princeton University
- 2006
B.A., English
Amherst College
Awards & honors
- Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Crit…
- 2022 Whiting Award Winner for Nonfiction
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