About me
Jesse McCarthy is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He is the author of The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War; Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?, winner of the 2022 Whiting Award for Nonfiction; and a novel, The Fugitivities. He edited The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois for The Norton Library and co-edited the African American poetry anthology Minor Notes Vol. 1. His articles and reviews are published or forthcoming in New Literary History, African American Review and Novel, as well as The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, n+1, and Dissent. He is also literary fiction editor at Public Books and a contributing editor at The Point.