Media Appearances

News About President Starr

• CBS Evening News, Students Struggle as College Prices Skyrocket, February 21, 2024
• NPR, Here's What Happened After California Banned Affirmative Action 25 Years Ago, June 29, 2023
• Los Angeles Times, 'We're Really Worried': What Do Colleges Do Now After Affirmative Action Ruling?, June 29, 2023
• NBC News, California Ended Affirmative Action in the '90s But Retains a Diverse Student Body, June 29, 2023 
• Chronicle of Higher Education, How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Higher Ed? May 25, 2023
• Inside Higher Ed, How to Recover from Pandemic Learning Loss, March 15, 2023
• LAist, Civil Rights Pioneer Myrlie Evers-Williams Has Donated Her Archival Collection to Pomona College, Feb. 9, 2023
• ABC7 Los Angeles, Pomona College Offers New Scholarship for Refugee Students, Helping Them Achieve the American Dream, Dec. 8, 2022
• Los Angeles Times, California Banned Affirmative Action in 1996. Inside the UC Struggle for Diversity, October 31, 2022
• Boston Globe, Widen the College Pipeline So That Talent Everywhere Can Succeed Anywhere, October 27, 2022
• Aspen Ideas, The Path Forward for Academic Freedom in Higher Ed, June 2022
• Milken Institute Global Conference, Values and Value: Rethinking Higher Education, October 18, 2021
• The New Yorker, Can Affirmative Action Survive?, July 26, 2021
• Inland Empire Magazine, Women Who Lead, June 2021
• University Innovation Alliance, Inclusivity, the Arts and Empathetic Leadership, May 20, 2021
• Spectrum News, SoCal University Leaders Vow to Be Focal Points in Fight Against Racism, April 20, 2021
• Inside Higher Ed, Colleges Can Teach How to Open Eyes and Ears, April 13, 2021
• Zocalo Public Square, An Interview with President G. Gabrielle Starr, January 14, 2021
• The Hill, New Threat to International Students and Our Future, October 19, 2020
• Teen Vogue, Liberal Arts Colleges Need an Overhaul or They Won’t Survive, September 9, 2020
• Education First, Governor Newsom's Council for Post-Secondary Education Announces California Higher Education Recovery with Equity Taskforce, August 6, 2020
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Higher Ed’s Reckoning with Race, June 15, 2020
• Financial Times, What to Tell Young People About the Systemic Hatred in Our Society, June 4, 2020
• The Chronicle of Higher Education, After George Floyd’s Killing, What Academics Can Do?, June 1, 2020
• The Chronicle of Higher Education, Who Decides What's Good and What's Bad in the Humanities?,  September 17, 2019
• The Washington Post, Dear College Students: My grandmother waited 70 years for the right to vote. Don't ignore this chance, October 23, 2018

Selected Scholarly Work

Books

• Just in Time: Temporality, Aesthetic Experience, and Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT Press, 2023
• Feeling Beauty: The Sister Arts and the Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013 (paperback 2015), Finalist for the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa
• Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 (paperback 2015)

Selected Articles, Essays and Book Chapters

• “Motion in Stevens and Frost.” The Wallace Stevens Journal 41:1 (2017): 90-92.
• “Aesthetics and Impossible Embodiment: Stevens, Imagery and Disorientation.” The Wallace Stevens Journal 39:2 (2015): 157-81.
• “Art Reaches Within: Aesthetic Experience, the Self and the Default Mode Network.” Frontiers in Neuroscience 7:258 (2013).
• “Aesthetics and Taste: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and Beyond in the Eighteenth Century.” A Companion to British Literature: Volume III: Long Eighteenth-Century Literature 1660-1837, London: Blackwell (2014): 258-76.
• “Personalized Visual Aesthetics.” Proceedings of SPIE: Quality of Experience: Cognition, Emotion and Aesthetics 9014 (2014). 
• “Evolved Reading and the Science(s) of Literary Study.” Critical Inquiry (Winter 2012): 418-25.
• “The Brain on Art: Intense Aesthetic Experience Activates the Default Mode Network.” Frontiers of Human Neuroscience 6:66 (2012).