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Henry Giroux is a regular contributor to a number of online journals including Truthout, Truthdig, and CounterPunch. He has published in journals including Social Text, Third Text, Cultural Studies, Harvard Educational Review, Theory, Culture, & Society, and Monthly Review.

His primary research areas are: cultural studies, youth studies, critical pedagogy, popular culture, media studies, social theory, and the politics of higher and public education. He is particularly interested in what he calls the war on youth, the corporatization of higher education, the politics of neoliberalism, the assault on civic literacy and the collapse of public memory, public pedagogy, the educative nature of politics, and the rise of various youth movements across the globe.

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Books

The Disappeared Future: On Education, Cruelty, and Resistance (Bloomsbury 2026)
Assassins of Memory: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Erasure (Bloomsbury, 2026).
Teachers as Intellectuals (Third Edition) Bloomsbury Books (2025).
Capitalism and Culture: Selected Essays and Interviews MuseumsEtc. Ltd (2025)
The Burden of Conscience: Educating Beyond the Veil of Silence Bloomsbury Books (2025).
Theory and Resistance in Education (Third Edition) Bloomsbury Books (2025)
Co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio, Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy Bloomsbury Books (2024).
Education, culture and struggles for democracy: trans. Andrea Costa and Gustavo Figueiredo Editora UFRJ: Brazil (2023)
Insurrections: Education in the age of Counter-Revolutionary Politics Bloomsbury Books (2023).
Co-authored with Gustavo de Oliveira Figueiredo, Gustavo de Oliveira, Figueiredo Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira and Andréa Costa da Silva Salvador: Edufba (Brazil 2022).
Educacao, Direitos Socias E Politicas Publicas: Praticas, Criticas E Utopias
Pedagogy of Resistance: Against Manufactured Ignorance Bloomsbury Books (2022).
Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis Bloomsbury Books (2021)
On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd Edition. Bloomsbury Books (2020)
Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education, 2nd Edition. Haymarket Books (2020)

Journal articles

“Stephen Miller and the Cultural Politics of Fascist Subjectivity,” The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies (in press)
“Attaques contre les chercheurs et guerre à l’éducation,” Education et Sociétés, 55(1): (forthcoming, 2026).
“The Politics of Disappearance: Mahmoud Khalil and America’s Descent into Fascism,” Fast Capitalism (in press).
“Fascist Politics and Pandemic Fears,” Educational Philosophy and Theory (in press)
“Corporate Media in the Age of Fascist Politics: Firewalls of Ignorance and Disappearance,” Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress (in press).
“Student Protests, Gaza and the New McCarthyism,” Symploke (in press).
“Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression,” Policy and Practice 41: (Autumn 2025).
“Pedagogia crítica contra o neoliberalismo na luta por justiça política, educacional e trabalhista” in Revista Ciências do Trabalho or the Journal of Labor Sciences n. 27 (May 2025), pp. 1-10.
“Education, Fascism, Memory, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century: Rethinking 9/11,” Studia Krytczne [Critical Studies-Poland], 13 (April 18, 2025)
“Paulo Freire’s Legacy and Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times,” Policy and Practice 40 (Spring 2025). Reprinted in Critical Studies [Poland] 13 (April 18, 2025).

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Chapters in books

“Late Capitalism,” in Jeffrey R. Di Leo, ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (New York: Bloomsbury, in press).
“Mass Shootings in the Age of the Apocalypse: Politics and the Ghosts of History,” in Michael Peters and Thomas Meier, eds. Civilizational Collapse and Post-Apocalyptic Survival (New York: Peter Lang, in press)
“Respensando Paulo Freire, sua Pedagogia Critica e a politica do pos-colonialismo” in Maria Amelia Santoro, Franco, et al., eds. Pedagogias Emergentes: Principious e Praticas ) (Sao Paulo, Brazil: Cortz Editora, 2025), pp. 38-61,
“Militarized Education and the Assault on Free Speech,” in Zachary Sklar and Michael Steven Smith, eds. The Flag and the Cross: Fascism American Style (New York: OR Books, 2025).
Co-author, William Paul, “Educators and Critical Pedagogy: An Antidote to Authoritarianism,” in Jerzy Kociatkiewicz and Monika Kostera, eds. How to Do Social Science that Matters (UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2024), pp. 32-42,
“The Violence of Organized Forgetting,” in Brad Evans and Chantal Meza, ed. The State of Disappearance (McGill-Queens University Press, 2023), pp. 78-97.
Co-author Ourania Filippakou, “Higher education, critical pedagogy, and the challenge of resistance” in: R. J. Tierney, F. Rizvi, and K. Erkican, eds., International Encyclopedia of Education, vol. 8. (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2023.) pp. 139–144. https:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.02018-2.
“Critical Pedagogy,” in: U. Bauer, U.H. Bittlingmayer, A. Scherr (eds), Handbook of Sociology of Education. (Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer, 2023), pp. 717-732.
“Trumpism and the Challenge of Critical Education,” in Norman K. Denzin, Michael D. Giardina, eds. Transformative Visions for Qualitative Inquiry (New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 176-198.
“Neoliberal Fascism as the Endpoint of Casino Capitalism,” in Vincent Mosco and Jin Cao, eds. Critical Perspectives on New Media: Challenging the Neo-Liberal World Order (Shanghai, China: Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2022), pp. 113-135.

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Monographs

Educational Leadership and the Crisis of Democratic Culture (University Park, PA: University Council of Educational Administration, 1992).
Corporate Culture and the Attack on Higher Education and Public Schooling (Phi Delta Kappa International Fastback 1999).
Proto-Fascism in America: Neoliberalism and the Demise of Democracy (Phi Delta Kappa International Fastback 2004).
Tempo Publico e Esperanca Educada: Lideranca Educacional e a Guerra contra os Jovens (Mangualde, Portugal: Edicoes Pedago, 2007)

Edited journals (special issues)

“The Assault on the Universities,” Special Issue of College Literature. Guest Editor with Susan Searls Giroux, Fall 2006
“The Profession of Literature at the End of the Millennium,” Special Issue of College Literature. Guest Editor with Kostas Myrsiades, Fall 1999
“Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogy,” Special Issue of Cultural Studies. Guest Editor with Peter McLaren, January, 1993.
“Schooling in the Age of Postmodernism.” Guest Editor, Boston University Journal of Education, (August, 1989).
“Critical Pedagogy and Popular Culture,” Special Issue of Curriculum and Teaching [Australia], 3(1), Guest Editor with Roger Simon, 1988.
“Ideology, Culture and the Hidden Curriculum,” Special Issue of the Journal of Education, 162(1), Guest Editor, Winter, 1980.
“On the Politics of Education,” A Special issue of Social Practice. Guest Editor. (Spring, 1980).

Awards

2025: Doctor Honoris Causa, Complutense University of Madrid
2023: Honorary Deanship Woxsen University India
2023: Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
2022: Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
2021: Doctor Honoris Causa from the Center for Latin American Studies of Education Inclusive (CELEI) of Chile.

Media

“The very notion of being an engaged public intellectual is neither foreign to, nor a violation of, what it means to be an academic scholar, but central to its very definition.”

– Public Intellectuals against the Neoliberal University