Paul L. Jay

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 [http://english.ttu.edu/ges/07Conference/index.html 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 [http://networkedpublic.blogspot.com 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.