Jeffrey R. Di Leo (born 1963 in Vineland, New Jersey) is an American literary theorist, philosopher, editor, and critic. He holds a B.A. in philosophy and economics from Rutgers University and a dual Ph.D. in philosophy and comparative literature from Indiana University, Bloomington, and taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois at Chicago before settling in Texas. Since 2004 he has been based at Texas A&M University-Victoria (formerly the University of Houston-Victoria, renamed in 2021), where he is Distinguished Professor of English and Philosophy and was Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences for roughly fifteen years before stepping down from that role in 2020.

In 2006 Di Leo took over the editorship of American Book Review, the longest-running independent literary book review in the United States, founded by Ronald Sukenick in 1977; the journal is now published by University of Nebraska Press. He is also founder and editor-in-chief of the critical theory journal symploke and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange. He is the author or editor of more than fifty books, among them Turning the Page: Book Culture in the Digital Age (Texas Review Press, 2014), Dead Theory: Derrida, Death and the Afterlife of Theory (Bloomsbury, 2016), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, 2018), Theory Conspiracy (Routledge, 2024), and the essay collection Out of Print (Broadstone, 2024).

For JEF he co-edited Experimental Literature: A Collection of Statements (2020), JEF series volume 77, assembled with Warren Motte: thirty-four statements by writers and critics on what experimental literature can still do, closing with an afterword by Robert Coover. It is his single JEF title and his contribution as an editor rather than as an author.

Start with Experimental Literature: A Collection of Statements for the manifesto-by-committee that anchors the question this whole catalog turns on.