Bio

Gregory Jones-Katz is an American intellectual and cultural historian. He currently holds a DFG-funded research position (“Eigene Stelle”) at the Institute for General and Comparative Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt and is an affiliated faculty member of the American Studies Department at TU Dortmund. Greg is also a contributor to Foreign Policy: the Global Magazine for News and Ideas.

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).