George B. Hutchinson (Email)
Chair, Department of English
Booth M. Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies
Ph.D. in English and American Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1983.
M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington, 1980.
A.B., Brown University, 1975.
U.S. Peace Corps, Burkina Faso, 1975-77.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
African American Literature, Interracial Literature, American Modernism, American Romanticism, Race Studies

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PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Books:
In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line. Cambridge, Mass.:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, 2007.
Bronze Medal, Independent Publishers Book Award for Biography, 2007.
"Best Nonfiction of 2006", Washington Post
"Editors' Choice for 2006", Booklist
"Honorable Mention, 2006 Scholarly Publishing Award for Biography & Autobiography", Association of American Publishers
Book Review-The Nation
Book Review-Washington Post
Book Review-London Review of Books

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance , editor (June 2007).

The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White . Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995.

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

Co-editor, The Future of the Harlem Renaissance, special issue of Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 80.4 (Winter 1997).

Selected Recent Articles:
"An End to the Family Romance: Nella Larsen, Black Transnationalism, and American Racial Ideology," in Race, Nation, and Empire in American History, ed. Matthew Guterl and James Campbell (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).

“The Novel of the Negro Renaissance,” in The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel, ed. Maryemma Graham ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 50-69.

“Aftermath: African American Literary Responses to the Great War,” in Flavia Brizio-Skov, ed., Reconstructing Societies in the Aftermath of War: Memory, Identity, and Reconciliation ( Boca Raton, FL: Bordighera Press, 2004), pp. 188-199.

"Race and the Family Romance: Whitman’s Civil War,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 20 (2003): 134-50

“Subject to Disappearance: Interracial Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand,” in Temples for Tomorrow, ed. Geneviève Fabre and Michel Fleiss ( Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001), pp. 177-192.

“Identity in Motion: Placing Cane,” in Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance, ed. Geneviève Fabre and Michel Fleiss ( New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2001), pp. 38-56.

“The Harlem Renaissance,” The Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History ( New York: Scribner’s, 2001), vol. 1, pp. 657-668.

“Journals and Causes” (with Paul Ashdown and Mark Hulsether), Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 83 (Fall/Winter 2000): 501-517.

"Nella Larsen and the Veil of Race," American Literary History 9 (1997): 329-49.

"Mediating 'Race' and 'Nation': The Cultural Politics of The Messenger," African American Review 28 (1994): 531-548.

"The Whitman Legacy and the Harlem Renaissance." Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays. Ed. Ed Folsom. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994. 201- 216. Reprint forthcoming in Chelsea House Publications collection.

"Jean Toomer and American Racial Discourse," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 35 (Summer 1993): 226-50. Rpt. in Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law, ed. Werner Sollors ( New York: Oxford UP, 2000), pp. 369-90.

"Langston Hughes and the 'Other' Whitman." The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life After the Life. Ed. Robert K. Martin. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992, pp. 16-27. Rpt. in Langston Hughes: A Collection of Poems, ed. James C. Hall, Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998).

"Jean Toomer and the 'New Negroes' of Washington," American Literature 63 (1991): 683-92. Rpt. in The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940, ed. Cary D. Wintz, vol. 7, Analysis and Assessment, 1980-1994 (New York: Garland, 1996).

PARTIAL LIST OF AWARDS
Kenneth Curry Chair of English, University of Tennessee, 1998-2000.

Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Achievement, University of Tennessee, 1997.

Finalist, Rea Non-Fiction Prize, for The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White, 1996.

Darwin T. Turner Award, MLA Division on African American Literature and Culture, 1995.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1989- 1990.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1988.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Summer Stipend, 1986.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Advisory Council and Nominating Committee, American Literature Section of MLA
Chairman of American Studies Program, University of Tennessee, 1987-2000; Visiting Professor of American Studies, Universität Bonn, Germany, 1993-94, 1998; PMLA Editorial Advisory Committee, 1996-1999; editorial boards of Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal and Borderlines: Studies in American Culture.