Jonathan Arac

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]

References

  1. ^ "Jonathan Arac". Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Literature Program. Retrieved May 28, 2026.
  2. ^ "Faculty Profiles". Columbia University in the City of New York. Retrieved May 28, 2026.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "About". b2o. Retrieved May 28, 2026.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
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