G. Gabrielle Starr

G. Gabrielle Starr
Starr in 2023
10th President of Pomona College
Assumed office
July 1, 2017
Preceded byDavid W. Oxtoby
Personal details
Born1974 (age 49–50)
Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
SpouseJohn C. Harpole[1]
Children2[1]
EducationEmory University (BA, MA)
University of St Andrews
Harvard University (PhD)
ProfessionAcademic
Websitewww.pomona.edu/administration/president
Academic background
ThesisThe frame of sense: The epistolary novel and the lyric mode in eighteenth-century England (1999)
Doctoral advisor
Academic work
DisciplineEnglish literature
Institutions

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]

  1. ^ a b Kendall, Mark (June 28, 2017). "A Couple on the Same Page". Pomona College Magazine. Pomona College. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
  2. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | G. Gabrielle Starr". www.gf.org. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  3. ^ "Pomona College's new president will be the first woman and African American to lead the campus". Los Angeles Times. December 8, 2016. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  4. ^ Rod, Marc (October 18, 2017). "G. Gabrielle Starr Inaugurated As 10th President Of Pomona College". The Student Life. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  5. ^ "New Members". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  6. ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2024".