Paul L. Jay

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Paul L. Jay (1946-) is a Professor at Loyola University Chicago where he teaches in the English Department. His research specialties include: Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Modernism, Modernity, American Literature; Comparative Literature, Border Studies, and Globalization.

Jay has written on these topics in recent articles, but has also published the following books: Contingency Blues: The Search for Foundations in American Criticism, 1997. The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley: 1915-1981, 1988. Being In The Text: Self-Representation From Wordsworth to Roland Barthes, 1984.

He was recently the keynote speaker at Redefining the New: Guiding The Direction of English Studies. He is also currently teaching a graduate seminar on Networked Public Culture, where he maintains a blog. The blog also showcases examples of Jay's photography. As an amateur photographer, Jay brings an interest in the reappropriation of images to his investigation of Networked Public Culture.