Jonathan Arac

Jonathan Arac is an American literary scholar. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at University of Pittsburgh,[1] visiting professor at Columbia University and Director of Pitt's Humanities Center.[2] 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[3]
  • The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860[4]
  • Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel[5]

References

  1. ^ "Request Rejected". www.literature.pitt.edu. Retrieved December 24, 2025.
  2. ^ Arac to direct Pitt Humanities Center Archived 2010-06-17 at the Wayback Machine, Pitt Chronicle, January 19, 2010.
  3. ^ Moody, Joycelyn. ""Huckleberry Finn" as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time by Jonathan Arac (review)". muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved December 24, 2025.
  4. ^ Tally, Robert T. (2007). "Review of The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860". Amerikastudien / American Studies. 52 (2): 249–251. ISSN 0340-2827.
  5. ^ Tally Jr, Robert T., ed. (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 978-1-83998-835-6, retrieved December 24, 2025{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)


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