Jonathan Arac
American literary scholar
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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 2006[2] and director of the University of Pittsburgh's Humanities Center from 2008 to 2019.[3][4] He has also been on the editorial board of the literary journal Boundary 2 since 1979.[5][6]
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]
