Jeffrey T. Nealon
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy
319 Burrowes BuildingMailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
University Park , PA 16802
Office Hours:
- SPRING 2018: T&Th, 1.30-2.45 and by appt.
Professional Bio
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 books over the last decade constitute a kind of trilogy on 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 latest manuscript (forthcoming in 2018) extends those analyses onto the turf of popular culture -- it's called I'm Not Like Everybody Else: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism and American Popular Music.