Martin Evan Jay

 Martin E. Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His research is devoted to 19th and 20th-century European intellectual history, critical theory and visual culture. He has written histories of the Frankfurt School, the intellectual migration from Germany to America, Western Marxism, and the denigration of vision in 20th-century French thought. The Dialectical Imagination (1973) is considered one of the most influential works in exposing the American academy to the theoretical insights of the Frankfurt School. He regularly contributes a column to "Salmagundi", and is working on the discourse of experience in recent American and European thought. His current research examines nominalism and photography. He is a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.