Paul L. Jay (born 1946) is a professor at Loyola University Chicago where he teaches in the English Department.
Jay has written on these topics in recent articles, but has also published the following books: Contingency Blues: The Search for Foundations in American Criticism (1997); The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley: 1915-1981 (1988); and Being In The Text: Self-Representation From Wordsworth to Roland Barthes (1984).
He was recently the keynote speaker at Redefining the New: Guiding The Direction of English Studies.
He is also currently teaching a graduate seminar on Networked Public Culture, where he maintains a blog.
As an amateur photographer, Jay brings an interest in the reappropriation of images to his investigation of Networked Public Culture.