Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-

Gene Andrew Jarrett (born April 21, 1975) is an American professor, literary scholar, and academic administrator. He is Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English at Princeton University. Prior to his current role at Princeton, Jarrett was the Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of Arts and Science (CAS) and Professor of English at New York University. Prior to that, 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. Before that, he was a professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. Jarrett is the author of three books of African American literary studies, and the editor or co-editor of eight additional books of African American literature and literary criticism. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Oxford Bibliographies module on African American Studies, published by Oxford University Press. For his scholarly work he has won a number of awards and distinguished fellowships.