Jonathan P. Eburne

Jonathan P. Eburne is a Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies at Pennsylvania State University, serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Comparative Literature. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and an A.B. from Dartmouth College. His research explores experimental artistic movements, 20th/21st-century literature, transnational intellectual relations, and literary/cultural theory. He is author of Outsider Theory (2018), which won the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize, and Surrealism and the Art of Crime (2008). Eburne co-edits books such as Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde (2017) and serves as series editor for 'Refiguring Modernism' and 'International Surrealism.'

His editorial roles include founding co-editor of ASAP/Journal and former President of ASAP and ISSS. He collaborates on interdisciplinary projects, including the nonprofit bookstore The Print Factory. Key awards include the 2020 James Russell Lowell Prize. His work bridges avant-garde studies, cultural theory, and surrealist scholarship, emphasizing speculative inquiry and marginalized intellectual traditions.