Jonathan Arac is an American literary scholar. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Literature at the University of Pittsburgh,1 and was previously a visiting professor at Columbia University from 2001 to 20062 and director of the University of Pittsburgh's Humanities Center from 2008 to 2019.34 He has also been on the editorial board of the literary journal Boundary 2 since 1979.56
Selected works
- Commissioned spirits: the shaping of social motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-8135-0874-0.
- Critical genealogies: historical situations for postmodern literary studies. New York: Columbia University Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-231-06254-1.
- Huckleberry Finn as idol and target: the functions of criticism in our time. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-299-15530-8.7
- The emergence of American literary narrative, 1820-1860. Cambridge, M.A.: Harvard University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-674-01869-3.8
- Impure worlds: the institution of literature in the age of the novel. New York: Fordham University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-8232-3178-2.9
References
References
- "Jonathan Arac". Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Literature Program. Retrieved May 28, 2026.
- "Faculty Profiles". Columbia University in the City of New York. Retrieved May 28, 2026.
- White, Patricia Lomando (January 19, 2010). "Pitt's New Humanities Center To Foster Collaborative Work". Pitt Chronicle. Archived from the original on June 1, 2012.
- "Contributors". boundary 2. 51 (1): 251–253. February 1, 2024. doi:10.1215/01903659-10892700. ISSN 0190-3659. Archived from the original on July 9, 2024.
- "About". b2o. Retrieved May 28, 2026.
- Fest, Bradley J. (May 1, 2016). "An Interview with Jonathan Arac". boundary 2. 43 (2): 27–57. doi:10.1215/01903659-3469898. ISSN 0190-3659. Archived from the original on February 7, 2025.
- Moody, Joycelyn K. (September 1999). "'Huckleberry Finn' as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time by Jonathan Arac (review)". MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly. 60 (3). Duke University Press: 413–418 – via Project MUSE.
- Tally, Robert T. Jr. (2007). "Review of The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860 by Jonathan Arac". Amerikastudien / American Studies. 52 (2): 249–251. ISSN 0340-2827 – via JSTOR.
- Tally, Robert T. Jr. (2023). "An American Bakhtin: Jonathan Arac, or, the Vocation of the Critic". The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies. Anthem Press. pp. 227–242. ISBN 9781839988356.
External links
External links
- boundary 2 official website
- Faculty page at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Literature
- Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh
- Faculty profile at Columbia University