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.[1] 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 serves as Series Editor of two book series ("Class in America" and "Symplokē Studies in Contemporary Theory") for the University of Nebraska Press. He is a member of the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly (Teaching as Profession), and former president of the Southern Comparative Literature Association.
Dr. Di Leo 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
• Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues. Co-authored with Henry Giroux, Sophia McClennen, and Ken Saltman. (2011)
• 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)
Selected Articles
• “Falling into Rank: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Journal Rankings.” Journal of Scholarly Publishing. (2011)
• “The Executor’s Dilemma.” American Book Review. (2011)
• “The Cult of the Book—and Why It Must End.” Chronicle of Higher Education. (2010)
• “In Praise of Tough Criticism.” Chronicle of Higher Education. (2010)
• “Do Androids Dream of Anna Karenina?” American Book Review. (2010)
• “The Fate of the Book Review.” Journal of Scholarly Publishing. (2009)
• “Against Anonymity.” Inside Higher Ed. (2009)
• “Public Intellectuals, Inc.” Inside Higher Ed. (2008)
• “Policing the Borders of Birmingham: Cultural Studies, Semiotics and the Politics of Repackaging Theory.” Semiotica. (2000)
• “Text.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. (1998)
• “Charles Peirce’s Theory of Proper Names.” 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. (1991)