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. From April to October 2022, Greg joined the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) as an International Fellow. In the 2022/23 academic year, he taught at the University of Duisburg-Essen and was a collaborator in the European Research Council research project “The Arts of Autonomy” at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. In the summer of 2023, Greg was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. In 2023, Greg also co-founded, with Qian Zhu (Duke Kunshan University) and John Hsien-hsiang Feng (Wuhan University), “The (Post)Modernity of China” research lab.

After holding the position of Research Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg from 2023 to 2024, he is now a Research Associate at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature at Goethe-Universität and an affiliated faculty member of the American Studies Department at TU Dortmund.

Greg’s first book Deconstruction: An American Institution is available with the University of Chicago Press (https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo27599454.html )

He is currently working on two book projects: (1) an intellectual history of theory; and (2) a cultural history of Dungeons and Dragons (under contract with Haymarket Books).