Public Scholarship and the Future of the Humanities

Gregory Jay is the Director of the Cultures and Communities Program and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Jay's research focuses on issues of multiculturalism and curriculum reform in literature and American Studies. His publications include American Literature and the Culture Wars and America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History. Jay is a founding member of Teachers for a Democratic Culture, a coalition of academics committed to preserving education as a force for social change and cultural pluralism. He has a Ph.D. in English from SUNY-Buffalo. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series: Sustaining the Earth.