Jesse McCarthy

Jesse McCarthy is 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, the essay collection Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? and a novel, The Fugitivities. He is editor of W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk for the Norton Library, co-editor at the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, and co-editor with Henry Louis Gates Jr. of the Norton Critical Edition of Jean Toomer’s Cane. His writing on literature, politics, and the arts has appeared widely including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books.