G. Gabrielle Starr

G. Gabrielle Starr
Starr in 2023
10th President of Pomona College
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2017
Preceded by	David W. Oxtoby
Personal details
Born	1974 (age 49–50) Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
Spouse	John C. Harpole[1]
Children	2[1]
Education	Emory University (BA, MA) University of St Andrews Harvard University (PhD)
Profession	Academic
Website	www.pomona.edu/administration/president
Academic background
Thesis	The frame of sense: The epistolary novel and the lyric mode in eighteenth-century England (1999)
Doctoral advisor	Leo Damrosch James Engell Philip Fisher
Academic work
Discipline	English literature, neuroaesthetics
Institutions	New York University Pomona College

Gina Gabrielle Starr (born 1974) is an American literary scholar, neuroscientist, and academic administrator who is the 10th president of Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California. She is known for her work on 18th-century British literature and the neuroscience of aesthetics. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship,^[2] an NSF ADVANCE award (joint with Nava Rubin), and a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation. From 2000 to 2017, she was on the faculty at New York University. In 2017, she became the first woman and first African-American president of Pomona College.^[3][4] Starr was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.^[5] In 2024, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.^[6]