Jonathan Arac
American literary scholar
Jonathan Arac is an American literary scholar. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at University of Pittsburgh, visiting professor at Columbia University and Director of Pitt's Humanities Center.[1] He is also an editor of the literary journal Boundary 2.
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
- ^ Arac to direct Pitt Humanities Center Archived 2010-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, Pitt Chronicle, January 19, 2010.
External links
- boundary 2
- Arac's homepage from University of Pittsburgh's Department of English
- Humanities Center at University of Pittsburgh
- Arac's biography from Columbia University
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