Jeffrey R. Di Leo edits American Book Review and symplokē, and is Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. He is professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. His many books include Out of Print (2024), Dark Academe: Capitalism, Theory, and the Death Drive in Higher Education (2024), Left Theory and the Alt-Right (2024, with S. McClennen), Theory Conspiracy (2024, with F. Beckman), Selling the Humanities (2023), Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview (2023), Understanding Zizek, Understanding Modernism (2022, with Z. Zalloua), Happiness (2022), Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism (2022, with Z. Zalloua), Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory (2022, with C. Moraru), Vinyl Theory (2020), Catastrophe and Higher Education: Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities (2020), Biotheory: Life and Death under Capitalism (2020, with P. Hitchcock), Philosophy as World Literature (2020), The End of American Literature: Essays from the Late Age of Print (2019), What's Wrong with Anti-Theory? (2019), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (2018), The Debt Age (2018, with P. Hitchcock and S. McLennen), Experimental Writing: A Collection of Statements (2018, with W. Motte), Higher Education under Late Capitalism: Identity, Conduct, and the Neoliberal Condition (2017), American Literature as World Literature (2017), The New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Sphere (2016, with P. Hitchcock), Dead Theory: Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory (2016), Capital at the Brink: Overcoming the Destructive Legacies of Neoliberalism (2014, with U. Mehan), Turning the Page: Book Culture in the Digital Age (2014), Corporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy (2014), Terror, Theory and the Humanities (2012, with U. Mehan), Neoliberalism, Education, and Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues (2012, with H. Giroux, S. McClennen, and K. Saltman), Academe Degree Zero: Reconsidering the Politics of Higher Education (2010), Federman's Fictions: Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust (2010), Fiction's Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation (2008, with R. M. Berry), From Socrates to Cinema: An Introduction to Philosophy (2007), If Classrooms Matter: Progressive Visions of Educational Environments (2004, with W. Jacobs), On Anthologies: Politics and Pedagogy (2004), Affiliations: Identity in Academic Culture (2003), and Morality Matters: Race, Class, and Gender in Applied Ethics (2002).Read more about this authorRead less about this author