Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is editor of the American Book Review, founding editor of the journal symploke, and executive director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.His previous publications include Dead Theory: Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory (2016), American Literature as World Literature (2017), and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (2019).