G. Gabrielle Starr | |
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10th President of Pomona College | |
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 |
Academic background | |
Thesis | The frame of sense: The epistolary novel and the lyric mode in eighteenth-century England (1999) |
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Academic work | |
Discipline | English 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]