John E. Guillory

Apr 27, 2023 | semcoop.com | John E. Guillory

John Guillory will discuss his book Professing Criticsm: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study. He will be joined in conversation by Nicholas Dames. Virtual eventPresented in partnership with By the Book: Smart Talk with Chicago AuthorsREGISTER HEREAbout the book: Professing Criticism offers a sociological history of literary study—both as a discipline and as a profession.

Feb 18, 2023 | thenation.com | John E. Guillory |Nicholas Dames |Joan Walsh |James Baldwin

This article appears in the March 6/13, 2023 issue. The scene: a graduate seminar in literature sometime in the eerily becalmed days of the mid-1990s, when for an aspirant to an academic job, the future seemed poised to break in one of two directions—either the long-promised wave of retirements and a deluge of open positions, or a decisive sign that the hiring trend line was never going to reverse its downward course.

Feb 13, 2023 | chronicle.com | John E. Guillory

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