Jonathan Freedman
Editor
mqr@umich.edu

       Jonathan Freedman is a Professor of English and American Culture at the University of Michigan. He's the author of Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism and Commodity Culture (Stanford, 1991), The Temple of Culture: Assimilation, Aggression and the Making of Literary Anglo-America (Oxford, 2001), and Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity (Columbia, 2008), and has edited anthologies of criticism on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Alfred Hitchcock.

       He and Sara Blair coedited a special issue for MQR, Jewish in America, which has since been released as a book by the University of Michigan Press. He's held fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and has taught at Yale University, Oxford University, Caltech, and the Bread Loaf School of English, as well as Michigan.