Gregory Jones-Katz is an intellectual and cultural historian. He is Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded project “Atlantic Crisscrossing: The Theory Apparatus between America and Germany, 1965-2008,” hosted by the Institute for General and Comparative Literature at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Greg is also an affiliated faculty member of the American Studies Department at TU Dortmund, and 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).