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Jonathan Fortescue has worked in retained executive search for more than a decade. His practice is national in scope and emphasizes leadership positions for clients who are creating new knowledge or working to shape the world, including research universities, venture-backed life science companies, and not-for-profit organizations.
Prior to his career in executive search, Jonathan taught at Harvard for eleven years, first in the English department, where he was a perennial recipient of Derek Bok Distinguished Teaching Awards, and then in History and Literature where he won the Alan Heimert Teaching Prize. A scholar of American literature and culture, he wrote the introductions to and the literary chronologies for three of the eight volumes of the Cambridge History of American Literature. He was graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with degrees in English and in Linguistics. A recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of the Humanities in 1989, he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University. | 