George B. Hutchinson

George B. Hutchinson (b. 1953) 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 to 2009.[1][2] [3]

Life

He graduated from Brown University with an AB in 1975, winning a silver medal in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships in 1973 and serving as captain and stroke of the men's varsity crew in 1974-75. He served in the Peace Corps in Burkina Faso, from 1975 to 1977, organizing well-digging projects in rural villages. He graduated from Indiana University with an MA in 1980, and a PhD 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 to 2000. During this time he was President of the Knoxville Rowing Association and helped propose the establishment of varsity women's crew at the university, which was subsequently adopted. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Bonn.

Awards

He was 1988 and 1989 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. He was also a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.[4][5] His book In Search of Nella Larsen won the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa, and was listed by the Washington Post and Booklist as one of the best Nonfiction books of 2006, by the New York Times Book Review as an Editors' Choice, and by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title. [6] His book "Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s" was shortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award in 2019 and won Honorable Mention for the Mate Calinescu Prize of the Modern Language Association, for distinguished scholarship on 20th and 21st century literature and thought. His edition of Jean Toomer's "Cane" was an Editors' Choice of the New York Times Book Review. [7] [8]

Works

Authored

• Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s. Columbia University Press, 2018.
• The Ecstatic Whitman: Literary Shamanism and the Crisis of the Union. Ohio State University Press, 1986.
• 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.

Edited

• The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-67368-6.
• with John K. Young, Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850. University of Michigan Press, 2013. ISBN 9780472118632[9]
• American Coctail: A Colored Girl in the World, by Anita Reynolds. Harvard University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780674073050
• by Jean Toomer. Cane, New York: Penguin Books, 1999. ISBN 9780141181325[10]

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. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/12/george-hutchinsons-facing-abyss-cited-mla
8. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/facing-the-abyss/9780231163385
9. university of michigan press, review by Glenda Carpio in American Literary History, vol. 26 number 4, Winter 2014, pp. 824-835
10. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/25/books/review-cane-jean-toomer.html

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