Getting to World Literature

jonathan arac is Mellon Professor of English and founding director of the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh. His most recent book is Impure Worlds: The Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel (2011). Since 1979 he has helped edit boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture; from 2002 until 2012 he chaired the Advisory Committee for the Successful Societies Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; and during the past two years he has served as president of the Society for Novel Studies.