George B. Hutchinson

George B. Hutchinson is an American scholar, Professor of English and Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture at Cornell University. He is also Director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell. From 2000 to 2012, he was the Booth Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies, at Indiana University, where he chaired the English department from 2006-2009.[1][2] [3] He graduated from Brown University with an AB in 1975. He served in the Peace Corps, in Burkina Faso, from 1975 to 1977. He graduated from Indiana University with an MA in 1980, and Ph.D. in English and American Studies, in 1983.

He taught at the University of Tennessee, from 1982 to 2000, chairing the American Studies Program from 1987-2000. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Bonn.

He was 1988 and 1989 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. He is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.[4][5] His book In Search of Nella Larsen won the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa, was listed by the Washington Post and Booklist as one of the best Nonfiction books of 2006 and by the New York Times Book Review as an Editors' Choice, and by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title, among other honors. [6]

Works

  • The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. Harvard University Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-674-37262-7.
  • In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line. Harvard University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-674-02180-8.

The Ecstatic Whitman: Literary Shamanism and the Crisis of the Union. Ohio State University Press, 1986.

Edited

  • George Hutchinson, ed. (2007). The Cambridge companion to the Harlem Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-67368-6.

Editor, American Coctail: A Colored Girl in the World, by Anita Reynolds. Harvard University Press, 2014.

Co-Editor, with John K. Young, Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850.' University of Michigan Press, 2013.'[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.indiana.edu/~engweb/faculty/profile_gHutchinson.shtml
  2. ↑ http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/hutchinson.html
  3. ↑ http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/people/?id=134
  4. ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/17015-george-hutchinson
  5. ↑ http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=81342
  6. ↑ http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674021808
  7. ↑ university of michigan press, review by Glenda Carpio in American Literary History, vol. 26 number 4, Winter 2014, pp. 824-835
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