It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Know: The Problem of Social Capital

Join us in welcoming literary critic John Guillory, author of “Professing Criticism” (2022) and “On Close Reading” (2024). Guilllory will look at Pierre Bourdieu’s “Forms of Capital” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” to examine the purpose, workings, and pitfalls of social capital.

John Guillory is the Julius Silver Professor of English at New York University. He is the author of Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation and Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study, both published by the University of Chicago Press.