Jeffrey R. Di Leo
| Jeffrey R. Di Leo | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jeffrey R. Di Leo Vineland, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Editor, Professor, Dean |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University, Indiana University |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Genre | Essay, Theory and Criticism, Philosophy |
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston–Victoria. He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symplokē, editor and publisher of the American Book Review, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange.
Di Leo is a past member of the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly (Teaching as Profession), and is the former president of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts.
He received a BA in Philosophy and Economics from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and an MA in Philosophy, an MA in Comparative Literature, and a dual PhD in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington. He has taught at Georgia Tech and the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Di Leo was born and raised in Vineland, New Jersey. He lives in Victoria, Texas with his wife, Nina, and their two sons.
Books
• Higher Education under Late Capitalism: Identity, Conduct, and the Neoliberal Condition. (2017)
• Dead Theory: Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory. Edited with an introductory essay. (2016)
• The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Sphere. Co-edited with Peter Hitchcock. (2016)
• Corporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy. (2014)
• Criticism after Critique: Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political. Edited with an introductory essay. (2014)
• Turning the Page: Book Culture in the Digital Age. (2014)
• Capital at the Brink: Overcoming the Destructive Legacies of Neoliberalism. Co-edited with Uppinder Mehan. (2013)
• Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues. Co-authored with Henry Giroux, Sophia McClennen, and Ken Saltman. (2013)
• Terror, Theory, and the Humanities. Co-edited with Uppinder Mehan. (2011)
• Federman’s Fictions: Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust. Edited with an introductory essay. (2011)
• Academia Degree Zero: Reconsidering the Politics of Higher Education. (2010)
• Fiction’s Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation. Co-edited with R.M. Berry. (2008)
• From Socrates to Cinema: An Introduction to Philosophy. (2007)
• If Classrooms Matter: Progressive Visions of Educational Environments. Co-edited with Walter R. Jacobs. (2004)
• On Anthologies: Politics and Pedagogy. Edited with an introductory essay. (2004)
• Affiliations: Identity in Academic Culture. Edited with an introductory essay. (2003)
• Morality Matters: Race, Class and Gender in Applied Ethics. (2002)
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