Jonathan P. Eburne

I am a St. Louis-based professor and writer interested in the activities of experimental artistic groups and movements locally and internationally. I teach courses and publish scholarship on topics ranging from the surrealist movement to contemporary performance collectives, from literary and cultural theory to modern and contemporary literature and art.

I am a founder and part of the volunteer team directing The Print Factory, an antiracist, feminist, and queer-inclusive nonprofit bookstore and culture space in central Pennsylvania, which opened its doors in November 2024.

I am the author of three books and editor or co-editor of six others. My most recent book is Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), a book about the process of turning ideas into things, and vice-versa.

My writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Howlround Theatre Commons, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The American Book Review as well as in PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, African American Review, ASAP/Journal, The Minnesota Review, and elsewhere.

I teach in the English Department at Washington University in St. Louis, where I am J. H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities.