October 15, 2007, 4:00 p.m.
Stanford Humanities Center
Stefan Collini, FBA
Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, Cambridge University
Critics, Historians, and "Modernity"
in Interwar Britain
About the Speaker
PROFESSOR STEFAN COLLINI, FBA, is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature in the Faculty of English at Cambridge University. He has written widely on the relations between literature and intellectual history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and is author of Liberalism and Sociology (1979), That Noble Science of Politics (1983), Public Moralists (1991), Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait (1994), English Pasts (1999), and Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain (2006).
Collini has edited works by J.S. Mill, Matthew Arnold, Umberto Eco, and C.P. Snow, and published essays on T.S. Eliot, F.R. Leavis, George Orwell, Raymond Williams, cultural criticism, and the historical development of the concept of 'culture,' among other topics. His current research interests include 'Condition-of-England' writing, social criticism, literary journalism, the history of literary criticism, and ideas of culture.
Collini is a frequent contributor to journals such as The Times Literary Supplement and The London Review of Books.
Program
Monday, October 15, 4:00 p.m.
Lecture
Levinthal Hall
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford University
Stefan Collini's Bay Area visit is co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley.
Events
Book celebration
February 26 , 2008
2008 marked the fifteenth annual Humanities Center celebration to honor works written, edited, and performed by humanities faculty members at Stanford and published during the 2007 calendar year.
The annual "book" celebration has now expanded to include compact discs and other multimedia works.
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