Martin Jay
Martin Jay | |
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Jay in 2014 | |
| Born | Martin Evan Jay May 4, 1944 New York City, New York, US |
| Spouse(s) | Catherine Gallagher (m. c. 1973) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Frankfurt School (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | H. Stuart Hughes |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Intellectual history |
| School or tradition | Critical theory |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral students | |
| Main interests | |
| Notable works | The Dialectical Imagination (1973) |
Martin Evan Jay (born May 4, 1944) is an American intellectual historian whose research interests connect history with Frankfurt School critical theory, social theory, cultural criticism, visual culture, and historiography.
He is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at UC Berkeley, where he taught for 45 years, co-founded (with Judith Butler) the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory (2007–2016). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996) and American Philosophical Society (2019), received the American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction (2018) and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Bard College (2018).
Conferences on his work were held at the University of Wrocław (2010), the University of California, Berkeley (2016), Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (2018), Queen Mary College, London (2018), and the University of Pennsylvania (2024). A Festschrift, The Modernist Imagination, was published in 2009.