Faculty: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Dr. Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Dean of Arts & Sciences
B.A., Rutgers University; M.A. (Philosophy), M.A. (Comparative Literature); Ph.D., Indiana University.
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Phone: 361-570-4200
Victoria: 208C UC
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is also Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and past president of the Southern Comparative Literature Association.
He is editor and publisher of the American Book Review, founder of the journal Symploke, which was awarded the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement (2000) by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), and editor of two book series, symploke Studies in Contemporary Theory and Class in America , both published by the University of Nebraska Press.
Selected Publications:
Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues (Paradigm, 2011; with Henry Giroux, Sophia McClennan, and Ken Saltman)
Terror, Theory, and the Humanities (Open Humanities Press, 2011; with Uppinder Mehan)
Academe Degree Zero: Reconsidering the Politics of Higher Education (Paradigm, 2010)
Federman's Fictions: Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust (State University of New York Press, 2010)
“The Cult of the Book—and Why It Must End.” The Chronicle Review. Chronicle of Higher Education, section B (1 October 2010): B8-B9.
“Against Rank.” Inside Higher Ed. June 25, 2010. www.insidehighered.com.
“In Praise of Tough Criticism.” The Chronicle Review. Chronicle of Higher Education, section B (18 June 2010): B4-B5.
“Against Anonymity.” Inside Higher Ed. July 7, 2009. www.insidehighered.com.
Fiction's Present: Situating Contemporary Narrative Innovation (State University of New York Press, 2007; with R. M. Berry)
From Socrates to Cinema: An Introduction to Philosophy (McGraw Hill, 2005)
On Anthologies: Politics and Pedagogy (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)
If Classrooms Matter: Progressive Visions of Educational Environments (Routledge, 2004; with Walter Jacobs)
Affiliations: Identity in Academic Culture (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)
Morality Matters: Race, Class, and Gender in Applied Ethics (McGraw-Hill, 2002)