Dr. Jesse D. McCarthy is an essayist, cultural critic, and teacher. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is also an Editor at The Point.McCarthy's research focuses on politics and aesthetics in African American literature, postwar literary history, and Black Studies. He is also interested in modernism, film, poetics and translation.McCarthy's writing on culture, politics, and literature has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Dissent, The New Republic and n+1. His first book, the essay collection "Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?," was published in 2021. His second book, the novel "The Fugitivities," was published later in 2021.McCarthy received his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Princeton University.