Victor E. Taylor (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is a nationally recognized humanities author and scholar. He has held several senior administrative leadership positions in high education. Currently, he serves as the president of the Whitestone Foundation.
He is the executive editor for the Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory and editor of two book series with Parlor Press: Emerging Conversations in the Global Humanities and Critical Issues in Higher Ed Leadership. His current research includes a volume entitled Global Kafkas co-edited with Sander L. Gilman.
He has published widely in the humanities and is the author of Para/Inquiry: Postmodern Religion and Culture (Routledge 2000), The Religious Prayed, The Profane Swear (Pen Mark Press 2002/ Second edition, 2012), Religion After Postmodernism (The University of Virginia Press 2008), and Christianity, Plasticity, and Spectral Heritages (Palgrave MacMillan 2017). He is the co-editor of Postmodernism: Critical Concepts (Routledge 1998) , The Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, (2000: Spanish 2002, Russian 2003), Jean-François Lyotard: Critical Assessment, vols. I-III, (Routledge 2005), Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition, (Davies, 2009), Conversations in Cultural and Religious Theory (Davies 2013) and Divisible Derridas, (Davies 2017).
At York College of Pennsylvania, he was the inaugural Senior Academic Officer of the Division of Graduate Studies and Professional Programs, Director of the Institute for Civic Arts and Humanities, Chair of the English and humanities department, Interim Dean of the Graham School of Business, and Director of the Presidential Research Honors Program. He was the coordinator for the literary studies program and the humanities program, the coordinator for “disciplinary perspectives” in general education (Gen Next), and as the principal investigator for CTL and Great to Great grants on the urban and civic humanities.
He was a research associate at The Johns Hopkins University and has held similar appointments at UCLA, University of Pennsylvania, and UC, Irvine. In 2015 he completed Harvard University’s MDP in higher education leadership.