Vinyl Theory

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. He is editor and publisher of the American Book Review, and founder and editor of the journal Symploke, which was awarded the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement (2000) and a Best Special Issue Award (2012) by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). He has edited and authored over twenty books. His recent titles include: What's Wrong with Antitheory? (Bloomsbury, 2019), The End of American Literature: Essays from the Late Age of Print (Texas Review Press, 2019), Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, 2018), The Debt Age (Routledge, 2018; with Peter Hitchcock and Sophia McClennen), Experimental Literature: A Collection of Statements (JEF Books, 2018; with Warren Motte), Higher Education under Late Capitalism: Identity, Conduct, and the Neoliberal Condition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and American Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2017).