Jonathan Arac
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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.[http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=4530 Arac to direct Pitt Humanities Center] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617023913/http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=4530 |date=2010-06-17 }}, Pitt Chronicle, January 19, 2010. 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
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External links
- [https://read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2 boundary 2]
- [http://www.englishlit.pitt.edu/people/faculty/arac.html Arac's homepage] from University of Pittsburgh's Department of English
- [http://www.humcenter.pitt.edu/index.php Humanities Center] at University of Pittsburgh
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100317075228/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/fac_profiles.htm#ja2007#ja2007 Arac's biography] from Columbia University
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Category:American academics of English literature
Category:University of Pittsburgh faculty
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