Jonathan Arac

'''Jonathan Arac''' is an American literary scholar. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Literature at the [[University of Pittsburgh]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jonathan Arac |url=https://www.literature.pitt.edu/jonathan-arac |access-date=2026-05-28 |website=Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Literature Program}}</ref> and was previously a visiting professor at [[Columbia University]] from 2001 to 2006<ref>{{Cite web |title=Faculty Profiles |url=https://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/fac_profiles.htm#ja2007 |access-date=2026-05-28 |website=Columbia University in the City of New York}}</ref> and director of the University of Pittsburgh's Humanities Center from 2008 to 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |last=White |first=Patricia Lomando |date=January 19, 2010 |title=Pitt’s New Humanities Center To Foster Collaborative Work |url=http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=4530 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20120601151558/http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=4530 |archive-date=2012-06-01 |website=Pitt Chronicle |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2024-02-01 |title=Contributors |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/article-abstract/51/1/251/385416/Contributors |url-status=live |journal=boundary 2 |language=en |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=251–253 |doi=10.1215/01903659-10892700 |issn=0190-3659 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240709162607/https://read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/article-abstract/51/1/251/385416/Contributors |archive-date=2024-07-09}}</ref> He has also been on the editorial board of the literary journal ''[[Boundary 2]]'' since 1979.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.boundary2.org/about/ |access-date=2026-05-28 |website=b2o |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fest |first=Bradley J. |date=2016-05-01 |title=An Interview with Jonathan Arac |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/article-abstract/43/2/27/56145/An-Interview-with-Jonathan-Arac |url-status=live |journal=boundary 2 |language=en |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=27–57 |doi=10.1215/01903659-3469898 |issn=0190-3659 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250207014241/https://read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/article-abstract/43/2/27/56145/An-Interview-with-Jonathan-Arac |archive-date=2025-02-07}}</ref>

==Selected works== *{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/commissionedspir0000arac |title=Commissioned spirits: the shaping of social motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne |date=1979 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-0874-0 |location=New Brunswick, N.J.}} *{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/criticalgenealog00jona |title=Critical genealogies: historical situations for postmodern literary studies |date=1987 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-06254-1 |location=New York}} *{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/huckleberryfinna0000arac |title=Huckleberry Finn as idol and target: the functions of criticism in our time |date=1997 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |isbn=978-0-299-15530-8 |location=Madison}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moody |first=Joycelyn K. |date=September 1999 |title='''Huckleberry Finn' as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time'' by Jonathan Arac (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/886695 |journal=MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly |publisher=Duke University Press |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=413-418 |via=Project MUSE}}</ref> *{{Cite book |title=The emergence of American literary narrative, 1820-1860 |date=2005 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-01869-3 |edition= |location=Cambridge, M.A.}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tally |first=Robert T. Jr. |date=2007 |title=Review of ''The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860'' by Jonathan Arac |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41158306 |journal=Amerikastudien / American Studies |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=249–251 |issn=0340-2827|via=JSTOR}}</ref> *{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/impureworldsinst0000arac |title=Impure worlds: the institution of literature in the age of the novel |date=2011 |publisher=Fordham University Press |isbn=978-0-8232-3178-2 |location=New York}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tally |first=Robert T. Jr. |title=The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies |date=2023 |publisher=Anthem Press |isbn=9781839988356 |pages=227-242 |chapter=An American Bakhtin: Jonathan Arac, or, the Vocation of the Critic |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/critical-situation/an-american-bakhtin-jonathan-arac-or-the-vocation-of-the-critic/DD31DBB37CDCA69652207F0AB24A4663}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://www.boundary2.org/ ''boundary 2'' official website] *[https://www.literature.pitt.edu/jonathan-arac Faculty page] at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Literature *[http://www.humcenter.pitt.edu/index.php Humanities Center] at the University of Pittsburgh *[https://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/fac_profiles.htm#ja2007 Faculty profile] at Columbia University

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