Author: John Guillory

The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropol …

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For several years, write the editors of What’s Left of Theory , a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far …

For several years, write the editors of What’s Left of Theory , a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far …

This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Bermans introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants …

A sociological history of literary study-both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of l …

An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory’s formative text on the literary canon.Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory s Cultural Capital has been a signal te …