Jeffrey T. Nealon

I have published widely on contemporary literary and cultural theory, in journals including Critical Inquiry, Cultural Critique, PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, SAQ, and Postmodern Culture. I am author of _Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction_ (Cornell, 1993), _Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity_ (Duke, 1998), and _The Theory Toolbox_ (with Susan Searls Giroux, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, Second Edition 2011), as well as co-editor of _Rethinking the Frankfurt School_ (with Caren Irr, SUNY, 2002).

My recent books are probably best described as investigations of Foucaultian biopower and its discontents in the neoliberal present: _Foucault Beyond Foucault_ (Stanford, 2008), _Post-Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism_ (Stanford, 2012) and _Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life_ (Stanford, 2016). My newest book (published in November 2018 by the University of Nebraska Press) extends those analyses onto the turf of popular culture -- it's called _I'm Not Like Everybody Else: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism and American Popular Music_.

My latest manuscript, _Fates of the Performative: From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism_, is forthcoming in 2021 from University of Minnesota Press.