He is also the author of Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood (1994). His collections of essays include Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture (1989) The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism This is Where I Came In: Essays on Black America in the 1960s (2003), and, most recently, A Level-Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports (2011). From 2009-2012, Early served on the advisory committee for tenure, promotion, and personnel for the School of Arts and Sciences.Įarly is a noted essayist and American culture critic. He is also the executive editor of The Common Reader, Washington University’s new interdisciplinary journal that is published under the auspices of the Provost. He has also served as the director of the American Culture Studies Program, and was the founding director of the Center for the Humanities at Washington University. He had previously served as director of the African and African American Studies Program from 1992-1999. He is currently the chair of the African and African American Studies Department. in English and American literature from Cornell University. He earned his undergraduate degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and the Ph.D. He also has courtesy appointment in the American Culture Studies Programs and the English Department at Washington University. Gerald Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the African and African American Studies Department at Washington University in St.
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