Jeffrey R Di Leo
Biographic Data
| ID | 253952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey R Di Leo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey R |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Leo |
| SIGNATURE | DI LEO J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University-Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Literature, Philosophy, and the Work of Critical Humanities
This section highlights the major transformations currently reshaping research subjects in North-American Studies. The poststructuralist and postcolonial revolutions have expanded corpora and legitimized previously neglected sources, especially those produced by historically marginalized groups. This movement continues in response to technological, media, and social upheavals, which invite the exploration of new objects, such as literature that i…
Theory as a way of life: Sissako, filmmaking, and the postcolonial interview
Cinema, said Abderrahmane Sissako in an interview, is a form of communication that affords him the opportunity "to tell my story, to tell the story of my country". While much emphasis has been placed on examining his films as vehicles of social and political communication, much less effort has been afforded to examining the many interviews he has given over the years regarding those films as a complementary form of social and political communicat…
Neoliberal dread and the persistence of teaching
This article argues that it is only possible to teach without dread today if one does not value academic freedom. For these people, it is perfectly acceptable to be told what course they will teach, the content of those courses, and the modality of instruction. If one does not care about such things, then neoliberal academe with regard to teaching is not a house of dread. But for those who do not want to be told how to teach their course; who wan…
The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory
Disciplines from literary studies to environmentalism have recently undergone a spectacular reorientation that has refocused entire fields, methodologies, and vocabularies on the world and its sister terms such as globe, planet, and earth. The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory examines what “world” means and what it accomplishes in different zones of academic study. The contributors raise questions such as: What happens when “world” is appended…
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a general assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes. The first part of the volume focuses on work published prior to his death in 1980 covering the major periods of his development from Writing Degree Zero (1953) to Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980). The second part focuses both on the posthumously published material and the legacies of his …
Catastrophe and Higher Education: Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities
Biotheory: Life and Death under Capitalism
Catastrophe and Higher Education: Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of theory in the 21st century. With chapters written by the world’s leading scholars in their field, this book explores the latest thinking in traditional schools such as feminist, Marxist, historicist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial criticism and new areas of research in ecocriticism, biopolitics, affect studies, posthumanism, materi…
Late Capitalism on Vinyl: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, and Music
Research Article| July 01 2018 Late Capitalism on Vinyl: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, and Music Jeffrey R. Di Leo Jeffrey R. Di Leo University of Houston–Victoria, Texas 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 publisher of American Book Review and the founder and editor of symplokēr. His recent books include Corporate Humanities in …
Neoliberalism, Education, and Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues
Criticism after Critique
Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and
Criticism after Critique: Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political
Corporate World Literature
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of theory in the 21st century. With chapters written by the world’s leading scholars in their field, this book explores the latest thinking in traditional schools such as feminist, Marxist, historicist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial criticism and new areas of research in ecocriticism, biopolitics, affect studies, posthumanism, materi…
Corporate World Literature
Criticism after Critique
Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and
Criticism after Critique: Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political
Neoliberalism, Education, and Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of theory in the 21st century. With chapters written by the world’s leading scholars in their field, this book explores the latest thinking in traditional schools such as feminist, Marxist, historicist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial criticism and new areas of research in ecocriticism, biopolitics, affect studies, posthumanism, materi…
Late Capitalism on Vinyl: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, and Music
Research Article| July 01 2018 Late Capitalism on Vinyl: Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, and Music Jeffrey R. Di Leo Jeffrey R. Di Leo University of Houston–Victoria, Texas 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 publisher of American Book Review and the founder and editor of symplokēr. His recent books include Corporate Humanities in …
Catastrophe and Higher Education: Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities
Biotheory: Life and Death under Capitalism
Catastrophe and Higher Education: Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities
The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory
Disciplines from literary studies to environmentalism have recently undergone a spectacular reorientation that has refocused entire fields, methodologies, and vocabularies on the world and its sister terms such as globe, planet, and earth. The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory examines what “world” means and what it accomplishes in different zones of academic study. The contributors raise questions such as: What happens when “world” is appended…
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism
Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism is a general assessment of the modern literary and philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes. The first part of the volume focuses on work published prior to his death in 1980 covering the major periods of his development from Writing Degree Zero (1953) to Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980). The second part focuses both on the posthumously published material and the legacies of his …
Neoliberal dread and the persistence of teaching
This article argues that it is only possible to teach without dread today if one does not value academic freedom. For these people, it is perfectly acceptable to be told what course they will teach, the content of those courses, and the modality of instruction. If one does not care about such things, then neoliberal academe with regard to teaching is not a house of dread. But for those who do not want to be told how to teach their course; who wan…
Theory as a way of life: Sissako, filmmaking, and the postcolonial interview
Cinema, said Abderrahmane Sissako in an interview, is a form of communication that affords him the opportunity "to tell my story, to tell the story of my country". While much emphasis has been placed on examining his films as vehicles of social and political communication, much less effort has been afforded to examining the many interviews he has given over the years regarding those films as a complementary form of social and political communicat…
Literature, Philosophy, and the Work of Critical Humanities
This section highlights the major transformations currently reshaping research subjects in North-American Studies. The poststructuralist and postcolonial revolutions have expanded corpora and legitimized previously neglected sources, especially those produced by historically marginalized groups. This movement continues in response to technological, media, and social upheavals, which invite the exploration of new objects, such as literature that i…
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