Jesse McCarthy
{{Short description|American essayist, cultural critic and professor}}
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Jesse McCarthy is an American essayist, cultural critic, and assistant professor in English and African-American studies at Harvard University.{{Cite news|last=Walker|first=Jerald|date=March 26, 2021|title=To This Essayist and Cultural Critic, the Black Tradition Is Resistance|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/review/jesse-mccarthy-who-will-pay-reparations-on-my-soul.html|access-date=October 25, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=October 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160852/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/review/jesse-mccarthy-who-will-pay-reparations-on-my-soul.html|url-status=live}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Jesse McCarthy
| alma_mater = Amherst College (BA)
| discipline = English, African and African American Studies
| workplaces = Harvard University
}}
Publications
=Cultural criticism=
McCarthy has published on topics including the representation of women in the civil rights movement in film.{{cite journal |last=Lott |first=Martha |title=The Relationship Between the ‘Invisibility’ of African American Women in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s and Their Portrayal in Modern Film |journal=Journal of Black Studies |volume=48 |issue=4 |year=2017 |pages=331–54 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/26174202}}
= Non-fiction =
He is the author of Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?, an essay collection addressing questions such as: “What do people owe each other when debts accrued can never be repaid?”{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/wrestling-with-the-complexities-of-music-art-and-reparations/2021/04/29/91ba5844-9df0-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html|title=Book review of Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays by Jesse McCarthy|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=October 25, 2021|archive-date=December 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225093657/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/wrestling-with-the-complexities-of-music-art-and-reparations/2021/04/29/91ba5844-9df0-11eb-b7a8-014b14aeb9e4_story.html|url-status=live}}
= Fiction =
His debut novel, The Fugitivities, was released June 2021.{{Cite magazine|date=June 16, 2021|title=Briefly Noted|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/28/journey-to-the-edge-of-reason-projections-palace-of-the-drowned-and-the-fugitivities|access-date=October 25, 2021|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-US|archive-date=October 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160450/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/28/journey-to-the-edge-of-reason-projections-palace-of-the-drowned-and-the-fugitivities|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|title=In Jesse McCarthy's Debut Novel, A Young Black Man Goes In Search Of Himself|language=en|work=NPR.org|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/06/05/1003533677/in-jesse-mccarthys-debut-album-a-young-black-man-goes-in-search-of-himself|access-date=October 29, 2021|archive-date=October 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029010411/https://www.npr.org/2021/06/05/1003533677/in-jesse-mccarthys-debut-album-a-young-black-man-goes-in-search-of-himself|url-status=live}} It's the story of Jonah Winters, a young black man forming his identity, with parts of the story in Brooklyn, Brazil, Montevideo and Paris. He cites Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education as an important source of inspiration.
= Editor =
- Minor Notes Volume 1 (Penguin, 2023), with an introduction by Tracy K Smith
- The Souls of Black Folk (Norton Library, 2022)
Awards
McCarthy was recipient of a literary Whiting Award 2022 ($50,000) in the category non-fiction for his essay collection Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? granted by the Whiting Foundation in Brooklyn, New York City.{{Cite web |title=Jesse McCarthy 2022 Winner in Nonfiction |url=https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/jesse-mccarthy#/ |access-date=2022-04-10 |website=whiting.org |archive-date=April 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410115349/https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/jesse-mccarthy#/ |url-status=live }}
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