Paul Jay received his MA in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and his PhD in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has taught at Caltech, Emory University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Chicago, and since 1985 at Loyola University, Chicago, where he is currently Emeritus Professor of English. His areas of academic specialization include modern and contemporary literature and theory, cultural theory, visual culture, the relationship between literature and globalization, transnational literature, and the future of the humanities in twenty-first century higher education His most recent books are Transnational Literature: The Basics (2021), The Humanities “Crisis” and the Future of Literary Studies (2014), and Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies (2010). His essays have appeared in Inside Higher Ed, PMLA, American Literary History, and Callaloo. His 1998 edition of The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. Retired from teaching, he currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.