Degrees
PhD, English, SUNY-Buffalo, 1980
BA, Literature, UC-Santa Cruz, 1975
Teaching Interests
Critical Race Theory
Multicultural Literature
African American Literature and Culture
American Studies
Other Relevant Activities
Senior Director, UWM Cultures and Communities Program
Selected Publications
Jay, Gregory S. White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett. Oxford University Press, 2017: 333.
Jay, Gregory S. “'Not Everybody's Protest Novel: White Fictions of Antiracism from Stowe to Stockett'.” Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education". Ed. Kennedy, Tammie, Ratcliffe, Krista, and Middleton, Joyce. Southern Illinois University Press, (2016): 22-41.
Jay, Gregory S. Rev. of The Life and Work of John Edgar Wideman. By Keith E. Byerman. Choice, 2014.
Jay, Gregory S. “Rev. of Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial by Ralina L. Joseph.” Choice. (2013).
Jay, Gregory S. “Rev of The War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature by Michael T. Gilmore.” Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. American Library Association, (2011).
Jay, Gregory S. “Rev. of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition, ed. Angela Davis.” Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. American Library Association, (2011).
Jay, Gregory S. “'Engaging the Humanities: Principles and Practices for Public Scholarship and Teaching'.” Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, University of Alabama Press 3.1 (2010): 51-63.
Jay, Gregory S. “'Who Invented White People?'.” The Thompson Reader: Conversations in Context. Ed. Yagelski, Robert. Thomson/Heinle Publishers, (2007): 96-102.
Jay, Gregory S., and Jones, Sandra E. “Whiteness Studies and the Multicultural Literature Classroom.” MELUS 30.2 (2005): 99-121.
Jay, Gregory S. “'Women Writers and Resisting Readers'.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Johns Hopkins University Press 15.1 (1998): 104-110.
Jay, Gregory S. “Strategies and Challenges in High-Tech Teaching.” Works and Days 16.1-2 (1998): 393-410.
Jay, Gregory S. American Literature and the Culture Wars. Cornell University Press, 1997.
Jay, Gregory S. “Taking Multiculturalism Personally: Ethnos and Ethos in the Classroom.” American Literary History 6.4 (1994): 613-632.
Jay, Gregory S. America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History. Cornell University Press, 1990.
Jay, Gregory S. After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature. U of Alabama Press, 1985.
Jay, Gregory S. T. S. Eliot and the Poetics of Literary History. Louisiana State University Press, 1983.