Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Born
Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Vineland, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, Editor, Professor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRutgers University, Indiana University
PeriodContemporary
GenreEssay, Theory and Criticism, Philosophy

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is a Professor of English and Philosophy at Texas A&M University—Victoria.[1] He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symplokē,[2] editor-in-chief of the American Book Review,[3] and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.[4]

Di Leo is a former member of the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly[5] and a past president of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts.

He earned a BA in Philosophy and Economics from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and an MA in Philosophy and an MA in Comparative Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington. He also completed a dual PhD in Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Indiana University.[6] Di Leo has taught at Georgia Institute of Technology,[7] the University of Houston—Victoria, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Born and raised in Vineland, New Jersey, Di Leo currently resides in Victoria, Texas, with his wife, Nina, and their two sons.

Publications

Books

  • Theory Across Disciplines.[8] Edited with an introductory essay. (2025) ISBN 978-1-3504-2427-2
  • Theory as World Literature.[9] Edited with an introductory essay. (2025) ISBN 979-8-7651-0865-9
  • The Death Drive: Philosophy, Literature, Theory.[10] Co-edited with Paul Allen Miller. (2025) ISBN 978-1350465671
  • Out of Print.[11] (2024) ISBN 978-1-956782-61-5
  • Dark Academe: Capitalism, Theory, and the Death Drive.[12] (2024) ISBN 978-3-031-56350-8
  • Left Theory and the Alt Right.[13] Co-edited with Sophia A. McClennen. (2024) ISBN 978-1-032-54486-1
  • Theory Conspiracy.[14] Co-edited with Frida Beckman. (2024) ISBN 978-1-032-45016-2
  • Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview.[15] (2023) ISBN 978-1-350-36616-9
  • Selling the Humanities.[16] (2023) ISBN 978-1-68003-318-2
  • Understanding Zizek, Understanding Modernism.[17] Co-edited with Zahi Zalloua. (2023) ISBN 978-1-5013-9384-6
  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory.[18] Co-edited with Christian Moraru. (2022) ISBN 978-1-5013-6194-4
  • Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism.[19] Co-edited with Zahi Zalloua. (2022) ISBN 978-1-5013-6740-3
  • Happiness.[20](2021) ISBN 978-1-032-01520-0
  • Vinyl Theory.[21] (2020) ISBN 978-1-64315-015-4
  • Catastrophe and Higher Education: Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities.[22] (2020) ISBN 978-3-030-62478-1
  • What's Wrong with Anti-Theory?[23] Edited with an introductory essay. (2020) ISBN 978-1-350-23447-5
  • Biotheory: Life and Death under Capitalism.[24] Co-edited with Peter Hitchcock. (2020) ISBN 978-1-032-23886-9
  • Philosophy as World Literature.[25] Edited with an introductory essay. (2020) ISBN 978-1-5013-5187-7
  • The End of American Literature: Essays from the Late Age of Print.[26] (2019) ISBN 978-1-68003-178-2
  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory.[27] (2019) ISBN 978-1-350-18361-2
  • The Debt Age.[28] Co-edited with Peter Hitchcock and Sophia McClennen. (2018) ISBN 978-1-138-56258-5
  • Experimental Literature: A Collection of Statements.[29] Co-edited with Warren Motte. (2018) ISBN 978-1-884097-20-1
  • Higher Education under Late Capitalism: Identity, Conduct, and the Neoliberal Condition.[30] (2017) ISBN 978-3-319-49857-7
  • American Literature as World Literature.[31] Edited with an introductory essay. (2017) ISBN 978-1-5013-5460-1
  • Dead Theory: Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory.[32] Edited with an introductory essay. (2016) ISBN 978-1-350-05417-2
  • The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Sphere.[33] Co-edited with Peter Hitchcock. (2016) ISBN 978-1-137-58575-2
  • Corporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy.[34] (2014) ISBN 978-1-349-47342-7
  • Criticism after Critique: Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political.[35] Edited with an introductory essay. (2014) ISBN 978-1-137-42876-9
  • Turning the Page: Book Culture in the Digital Age.[36] (2014) ISBN 978-1-937875-51-0
  • Capital at the Brink: Overcoming the Destructive Legacies of Neoliberalism.[37] Co-edited with Uppinder Mehan. (2013) ISBN 978-1-60785-306-0
  • Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues.[38] Co-authored with Henry Giroux, Sophia A. McClennen, and Ken Saltman. (2013) ISBN 978-1-61205040-9
  • Terror, Theory, and the Humanities.[39] (2014) ISBN 978-1-61205-040-9
  • Federman’s Fictions: Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust.[40] Edited with an introductory essay. (2011) ISBN 978-1-4384-3382-0
  • Academe Degree Zero: Reconsidering the Politics of Higher Education.[41](2010) ISBN 978-1-59451-889-8
  • Fiction’s Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation.[42] Co-edited with R.M. Berry. (2008) ISBN 978-0-7914-7264-4
  • From Socrates to Cinema: An Introduction to Philosophy. (2007) ISBN 978-0-07-296906-1
  • If Classrooms Matter: Progressive Visions of Educational Environments.[43] Co-edited with Walter R. Jacobs. (2004) ISBN 978-0-415-97158-4
  • On Anthologies: Politics and Pedagogy.[44] Edited with an introductory essay. (2004) ISBN 978-0-8032-6644-5
  • Affiliations: Identity in Academic Culture.[45] Edited with an introductory essay. (2003) ISBN 978-0-8032-6636-0
  • Morality Matters: Race, Class and Gender in Applied Ethics. (2002) ISBN 978-0-7674-1236-0

Selected Articles

  • "Adorno on Vinyl."[46] Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism. Ed. Robin Goodman (Bloomsbury, 2020)
  • "Self-Publishing: Transforming Ways of Writing and Reading."[47] World Authorship: Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature. Ed. Tobias Boes, Rebecca Braun, and Emily Spiers (Oxford, 2020)
  • "Late Capitalism on Vinyl: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, and Music."[48] CR: The New Centennial Review. (2018)
  • "Philosophy without Apologies."[49] American Book Review. (2018)
  • "Independent Presses."[50] American Literature in Transition: 1990-2000. Ed. Stephen J. Burn (Cambridge, 2017)
  • "Don't Shoot the Journal Editor."[51] American Book Review. (2018)
  • "Running with the Pack: Why Theory Needs Community."[52]Intertexts. (2017)
  • "Digital Fatigue."[53] American Book Review. (2016)
  • "Who's Afraid of Self-Publishing?"[54] Notre Dame Review. (2016)
  • "Bootleg Scholarship."[55] American Book Review. (2016)
  • "Higher Pleasure: In Defense of Academic Hedonism."[56] The Comparatist. (2015)
  • "Is Higher Ed Working Class?"[57] Rhizomes. (2014)
  • "Can Theory Save the Planet?: Critical Climate Change and the Limits of Theory."[58]symploke. (2013)
  • "Robots in the Stacks."[59] American Book Review. (2013)
  • "When University Presses Fail."[60] Inside Higher Ed. (2012)
  • "The Executor’s Dilemma."[61] American Book Review. (2011)
  • "The Cult of the Book—and Why It Must End."[62] Chronicle of Higher Education. (2010)
  • "In Praise of Tough Criticism."[63]Chronicle of Higher Education. (2010)
  • "Do Androids Dream of Anna Karenina?"[64] American Book Review. (2010)
  • "The Fate of the Book Review."[65] Journal of Scholarly Publishing. (2009)
  • "Against Anonymity."[66] Inside Higher Ed. (2009)
  • "Public Intellectuals, Inc."[67] Inside Higher Ed. (2008)
  • "Policing the Borders of Birmingham: Cultural Studies, Semiotics and the Politics of Repackaging Theory."[68] Semiotica. (2000)
  • "Text."[69]The Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. (1998)
  • "Charles Peirce’s Theory of Proper Names."[70] Studies in the Logic of Charles Sanders Peirce. (1997)
  • "Unlimited Semiosis in Literature." Southern Review. (1994)
  • "Peirce’s Haecceitism." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society.[71] (1991)

References

  1. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (September 1, 2025). "Texas A&M University—Victoria website". www.tamuv.edu/liberal-arts-social-sciences.
  2. ^ "Current Issue". symplokē.
  3. ^ "About ABR • American Book Review".
  4. ^ "Society for Critical Exchange". societyforcriticalexchange.org.
  5. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (September 1, 2025). "Minutes of the MLA Delegate Assembly" (PDF).
  6. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (September 1, 2025). "Indiana University Department of Philosophy Graduate Degrees".
  7. ^ "Brittain Fellow Alums | Writing and Communication Program". wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  8. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (September 1, 2025). "Theory Across Disciplines".
  9. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (September 1, 2025). "Theory as World Literature".
  10. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (September 1, 2025). "The Death Drive".
  11. ^ "OUT OF PRINT, essays by Jeffrey R. Di Leo". Broadstone Books. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  12. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2024). Dark Academe. Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-56351-5. ISBN 978-3-031-56350-8. ISSN 2662-2246.
  13. ^ "Left Theory and the Alt-Right". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  14. ^ "Theory Conspiracy". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  15. ^ bloomsbury.com. "Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory". Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on 2023-10-04. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  16. ^ "Selling the Humanities". Texas A&M University Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  17. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (September 1, 2025). "Understanding Zizek, Understanding Modernism".
  18. ^ bloomsbury.com. "The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory". Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on 2025-06-13. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  19. ^ bloomsbury.com. "Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism". Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on 2022-08-19. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  20. ^ "Happiness". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  21. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (2020). Vinyl Theory. Ann Arbor, MI: Lever Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.11676127. ISBN 978-1-64315-015-4.
  22. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2020). Catastrophe and Higher Education. Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-62479-8. ISBN 978-3-030-62478-1.
  23. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (September 1, 2025). "What's Wrong with Anti-Theory?".
  24. ^ "Biotheory: Life and Death under Capitalism". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  25. ^ bloomsbury.com. "Philosophy as World Literature". Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on 2024-12-11. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  26. ^ "The End of American Literature". Texas A&M University Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  27. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (September 1, 2025). "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory".
  28. ^ "The Debt Age". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  29. ^ "Experimental Literature: A Collection of Statements". The Journal of Experimental Fiction. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  30. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2017). Higher Education under Late Capitalism. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49858-4. ISBN 978-3-319-49857-7.
  31. ^ bloomsbury.com. "American Literature as World Literature". Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on 2024-12-12. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  32. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (September 1, 2025). "Dead Theory".
  33. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R.; Hitchcock, Peter, eds. (2016). The New Public Intellectual. doi:10.1007/978-1-137-58162-4. ISBN 978-1-349-88763-7.
  34. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2013). Corporate Humanities in Higher Education. doi:10.1057/9781137361530. ISBN 978-1-349-47342-7.
  35. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R., ed. (2014). Criticism after Critique. doi:10.1057/9781137428776. ISBN 978-1-349-49157-5.
  36. ^ "Turning the Page". Texas A&M University Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  37. ^ Leo, Jeffrey R. Di; Mehan, Uppinder (2014). Capital At The Brink. Open Humanites Press. ISBN 978-1-60785-306-0.
  38. ^ "Neoliberalism, Education, and Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  39. ^ Leo, Jeffrey R. Di; Mehan, Uppinder (2013). Terror, Theory and the Humanities. Open Humanites Press. ISBN 978-1-60785-249-0.
  40. ^ Federman's Fictions.
  41. ^ "Academe Degree Zero: Reconsidering the Politics of Higher Education". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  42. ^ Fiction's Present.
  43. ^ "If Classrooms Matter: Progressive Visions of Educational Environments". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  44. ^ "On Anthologies - Nebraska Press". University of Nebraska Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  45. ^ "Affiliations - Nebraska Press". University of Nebraska Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  46. ^ bloomsbury.com. "Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism". Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on 2024-12-02. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  47. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey. "World Authorship (edited book)". global.oup.com. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  48. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2018). "Late Capitalism on Vinyl: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, and Music". CR: The New Centennial Review. 18 (2): 107–134. doi:10.14321/crnewcentrevi.18.2.0107. ISSN 1532-687X. JSTOR 10.14321/crnewcentrevi.18.2.0107.
  49. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2018). "Philosophy without Apologies". American Book Review. 39 (6): 2. doi:10.1353/abr.2018.0083. ISSN 2153-4578.
  50. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2017), Burn, Stephen J. (ed.), "Independent Presses", American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000, American Literature in Transition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 362–377, ISBN 978-1-107-13601-4, retrieved 2025-09-01
  51. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2018). "Page 2: Don't Shoot the Journal Editor". American Book Review. 39 (5): 2–30. doi:10.1353/abr.2018.0059. ISSN 2153-4578.
  52. ^ "Project MUSE - Running with the Pack: Why Theory Needs Community". muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  53. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2016). "Digital Fatigue". American Book Review. 37 (6): 2–14. doi:10.1353/abr.2016.0113. ISSN 2153-4578.
  54. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (September 1, 2025). "The Notre Dame Review" (PDF).
  55. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2016). "Page 2: Bootleg Scholarship". American Book Review. 37 (2): 2–30. doi:10.1353/abr.2016.0016. ISSN 2153-4578.
  56. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2015). "Higher Pleasure: In Defense of Academic Hedonism". The Comparatist. 39: 196–207. ISSN 0195-7678. JSTOR 26254726.
  57. ^ "Rhizomes: issue 27: Jeffrey R. Di Leo". rhizomes.net. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  58. ^ Leo, Jeffrey R. Di (2013). "Can Theory Save the Planet?". Symplokē. 21 (1–2): 27–36. doi:10.5250/symploke.21.1-2.0027. ISSN 1069-0697. JSTOR 10.5250/symploke.21.1-2.0027.
  59. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2013). "Robots in the Stacks". American Book Review. 34 (2): 2–3. doi:10.1353/abr.2013.0007. ISSN 2153-4578.
  60. ^ "When University Presses Fail". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  61. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2011). "The Executor's Dilemma". American Book Review. 32 (3): 2. doi:10.1353/abr.2011.0061. ISSN 2153-4578.
  62. ^ Leo, Jeffrey R. Di (2010-09-26). "The Cult of the Book—and Why It Must End". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  63. ^ Leo, Jeffrey R. Di (2010-06-13). "In Praise of Tough Criticism". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  64. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2010). "Do Androids Dream of Anna Karenina?". American Book Review. 31 (4): 2. doi:10.1353/abr.0.0140. ISSN 2153-4578.
  65. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey R. (2009). "The Fate of the Book Review". Journal of Scholarly Publishing. 40 (2): 166–177. doi:10.1353/scp.0.0037. ISSN 1710-1166.
  66. ^ "Against Anonymity". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  67. ^ "Public Intellectuals, Inc". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  68. ^ Di Leo, Jeffrey (2000-01-01). "Policing the Borders of Birmingham: Cultural studies, semiotics and the politics of repackaging theory". Semiotica. 130 (3–4): 201–216. doi:10.1515/semi.2000.130.3-4.201. ISSN 1613-3692.
  69. ^ Leo, Jeffrey R. Di LeoJeffrey R. Di (2014-08-21), "Text", Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780199747108.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-974710-8, retrieved 2025-09-01
  70. ^ "Studies in the Logic of Charles Sanders Peirce". Indiana University Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  71. ^ "Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society". Indiana University Press. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
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