The Prairie Landscape

Board of Directors


J. Paul Hunter


Professor Emeritus
The University of Chicago
1218 E Madison Park
Chicago, IL 60615-2963


J. Paul Hunter

is Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago where he formerly served as Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities and as the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor of Humanities. He has taught also at the University of Florida, Williams College, University of California at Riverside, and Emory University. Huner is the author of several books, including The Reluctant Pilgrim, Occasional Form, and Before Novels, as well as being the editor of numerous textbooks, including important and widely-used Norton textbooks. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Humanities Center Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, President of the American Society for 18th Century Studies, and President of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. He holds a Ph.D. in literature from Rice University. He has five children and resides in Chicago.