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Jarvis C McInnis

Cordelia and William Laverack Family Assistant Professor of English
English
Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
313 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708

Awards & Honors


Faculty Success Program

National National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity · 2017

40 Under 40

University Tougaloo · October 2016

Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement Scholar (SITPA)

University Duke University · 2016

Mellon Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empiries

University Columbia University · 2015

Department of African American Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship

University Princeton University · 2015

The Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity

University The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Finalist) · 2015

Dissertation Fellowship for Achieving Excellence in College and University Teaching

Other Ford Foundation · 2014

The Futures of American Studies Institute Participant

University Dartmouth College · 2014

Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant

Other Social Science Research Council · 2013

Summer Teaching Scholars Fellowships

University Columbia University · 2013 A syllabus-design competition through the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant

Other Social Science Research Council · 2012

Pre-doctoral Fellowship for Achieving Excellence in College and University

Other Ford Foundation · 2011

Henry Cuyler Bunner Thesis Award

University Department of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University · 2010

Marjorie Hope Nicolson Fellowship

University Department of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University · 2009

Presidential Scholar

Other Tougaloo College · 2009

Delegate to the University of Cape Town, South Africa

Other United Negro College Fund/Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship · 2008

The Harry S. Truman Scholarship

Other The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation · 2008

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

Other Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship · 2007

Boys & Girls Clubs of America's National Youth of the Year

Other Boys & Girls Clubs of America · 2006

In the News


Published April 16, 2025
How Faculty Can Build Mentoring Networks
Published May 9, 2019
Junior Faculty, Students, Launch 'Black Think Tank'
Published November 7, 2017
Three New English Department Faculty Take Study of Literature Beyond the Novel