Rate My Professor Jarvis Young

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Literature History English and Literature Literature Rhetoric

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5.05/4/2026

Always patient and willing to help.

4.06/27/2025

Encourages students to think independently.

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About Jarvis

Jarvis Young serves as Assistant Professor of African American Literature in the Department of English at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, a position he has held since 2023. He is jointly appointed in the African and African American Studies program. Young earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, along with an M.A. and B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His scholarly work centers on early African American literature, exploring how enslaved individuals mastered literary traditions despite limited formal education. Young's research delves into the rhetoric of Black radicalism, tracing resistance to oppression from the early republic era through radical speech acts in essays, narratives, performances, and sermons by figures such as Toussaint Louverture, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, David Walker, Maria Stewart, and modern voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Alicia Garza. He is currently advancing a book project focused on the life and writings of late 18th-century abolitionist and preacher Lemuel Haynes.