Gregory Jones-Katz
Gregory Jones-Katz is an American intellectual and cultural historian. He earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016, and is currently a lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Greg's research and teaching interests include the history of philosophy, literature, literary criticism and theory, and higher education; the transatlantic flow of intellectual and cultural movements; and the philosophy of history, historiography, and the theory and practice of historical writing. His book Deconstruction: An American Institution is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.
Greg's second book project, American Theory: The Cultural Politics of the Academic Left and the Neoliberal University 1965-2000, investigates the texts, curricula, institutes, journals, lectures, study groups, and symposia invested in "theory" during the last three decades of the twentieth century. This new work aims to illuminate how the American academic left's uses of "theory" and its cultural politics transformed the humanities and social sciences, influencing not only higher education and intellectual life, but cultural and political conversations beyond university walls.
Greg is also working on a travelogue in which he reflects on his intellectual life in China as an American academic. Examining his own cultural disorientation, Greg contemplates his refracted view of America through the lens of his experiences in China. He considers topics including history, language, work, dreams, and simulacra.
School of Humanities and Social Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
joneskatz@cuhk.edu.cn
https://cuhk.academia.edu/GregoryJonesKatz