John Guillory is Julius Silver Professor Emeritus of English, New York University, and the author of 'Poetic Authority: Spenser, Milton, and Literary History' (1983), 'Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation' (1993; expanded edition, 2023), 'Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study' (2022) and, most recently, 'On Close Reading' (2025).
Stefan Collini is Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge. His books include 'Public Moralists' (1991), 'Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait' (1994), 'English Pasts' (1999), 'Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain' (2006), 'Common Reading' (2008), 'What Are Universities For?' (2012), 'Common Writing' (2016), 'Speaking of Universities' (2017), 'The Nostalgic Imagination' (2019), and, most recently, 'What is Cultural Criticism?' (with Francis Mulhern, 2025) and 'Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain' (2025).
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