Rhetorical Strategies in Public Debate: the literary critic as cultural critic

On November 13th, 2012

Stefan Collini (English, Cambridge University and current fellow at the National Humanitiies Center) gave the lecture, “Rhetorical Strategies in Public Debate: the literary critic as cultural critic.”

Stefan Collini is Professor of English Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. During 2012-13 he is a Visiting Fellow at the National Humanities Center. His books include Public Moralists (1991), English Pasts (1999), Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain (2006), and, most recently, What Are Universities For? (2012). He is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, and Nation, as well as an occasional broadcaster.