Along with Professor Stefan Uhlig (University of California, Davis, and Derek Brewer (Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College), Ross Wilson has organised a public lecture by Professor John Guillory (New York University) and a conversation between Professor Guillory and Professor Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge). Professor Guillory’s lecture is entitled ‘”It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”: Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby‘ and the conversation between Professor Guillory and Professor Collini (chaired by Professor Uhlig) addresses the history and organisation of English studies in Britain and the United States.

Professor Guillory’s Professing Criticism was published by University of Chicago Press in 2022 and On Close Reading (also Chicago) this year; Professor Collini’s Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain was published by Oxford University Press this April.