Jonathan Arac
Encyclopedia
Jonathan Arac is an American
literary scholar. He is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at University of Pittsburgh
, visiting professor at Columbia University
and Director of Pitt's Humanities Center. He is also an editor of the literary journal Boundary 2
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United States
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literary scholar. He is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
, visiting professor at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
and Director of Pitt's Humanities Center. He is also an editor of the literary journal Boundary 2
Boundary 2
boundary 2 is an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies, theory, libertarian politics and literary criticism. In the 1970s and 1980s it was one of the primary venues for poststructuralist literary theory in the United States. It is edited primarily at the University of Pittsburgh and...
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Selected Writings
- Commissioned Spirits: The Shaping of Social Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne
- 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
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