Gregory Jay, Professor
Office: Holton Hall G36
Phone: 414-229-5960
e-mail: gjay@uwm.edu
Web Site: http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay
Degree(s):
Ph.D., English, SUNY-Buffalo (1980)
B.A., Literature, UC-Santa Cruz (1975)
Teaching Interests:
Multiculturalism
American Literature to 1900
History of American Criticism
American Cultural Criticism 1890-1940
Backgrounds of Modernism 1880-1940
Critical Theory; 19th Century American Novel
Literature, Ethics, and Postmodernity
Contemporary Fiction and Cultural Differences
Major Author courses on Whitman, Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich
Other Information:
Director, Cultures and Communities Program
Member, Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly
Project Director, NEH Summer Institute on Rethinking American Studies, July-August, 1995
Founding member, Teachers for a Democratic Culture
Selected Publications:
Books:
American Literature and the Culture Wars. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997
America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990
T.S. Eliot and the Poetics of Literary History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1983; (with David Lee Miller)
After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama Press, 1985
Articles:
"'White Man's Book No Good': D. W. Griffith and the American Indian." Cinema Journal 39:4 (2000), 3-26.
"Strategies and Challenges in High-Tech Teaching." Works and Days 16:1-2 (1998), 393-410.
"Women Writers and Resisting Readers." Legacy 15:1(1998), 104-110.
"Jewish Writers in the Multicultural Literature Class." Heath Anthology Newsletter 16 (Fall 1997), 8-11.
"Critical Pedagogy: A Reassessment". Co-authored with Gerald Graff. In Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities. Ed. Michael Berube and Cary Nelson. New York: Routledge, 1995.
"Taking Multiculturalism Personally: Ethnos and Ethos in the Classroom." American Literary History 6:4 (1994), 613-32.
"Knowledge, Power, and the Struggle for Representation." College English 56:1 (1994), 9-29.
"Postmodernism in The Waste Land: Woman, Mass Culture, and Others." In Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism. Ed. Kevin J. H. Dettmar. Ann Arbor, MI.: U of Michigan Press, 1992, 221-48.
"The End of 'American' Literature: Toward a Multicultural Practice." College English 53:3 (1991), 264-81.