Jonathan Arac is an American literary scholar. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...
, visiting professor at
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
and Director of Pitt's Humanities Center.
Arac to direct Pitt Humanities Center
, Pitt Chronicle, January 19, 2010. He is also an editor of the literary journal Boundary 2
''Boundary 2'', often stylized ''boundary 2'', is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of postmodern theory, literature, and culture. Established in 1972 by William V. Spanos and Robert Kroetsch (Binghamton University), under the title ''b ...
.
Selected writings
*''Commissioned Spirits: The Shaping of Social Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne'', Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J.
*''Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies''
*''"Huckleberry Finn" as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time''
*''The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860''
*''Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel''
References
External links
boundary 2
from University of Pittsburgh's Department of English
Humanities Center
at University of Pittsburgh
from Columbia University
Living people
American academics of English literature
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
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