Dr. Harvey Young

Harvey Young is Vice President for the Arts ad interim, Dean Emeritus of the College of Fine Arts, and Professor of English & Theatre at Boston University. An arts advocate and a cultural critic, he has appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, NPR, CBC Radio as well as within the pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune among other major news outlets. A 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author/editor of ten books, including Theatre & Race (Bloomsbury, 2026) and Theater and Human Flourishing (Oxford, 2023). Dean Young frequently serves as a consultant and evaluator for major arts & culture foundations and, in 2026, served on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. A former Harvard and Stanford faculty fellow, he graduated with honors from Yale and holds a Ph.D. from Cornell. In 2026-2027, he will be the Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College.