(3 Oct) Institutions of Culture
Pierre Bourdieu, “The Field of Cultural Production”(1983)
(10 Oct) Institutions of Trust
Anthony Giddens, from The Consequences of Modernity (1991)
(17 Oct) Circulating Literature
Robert Darnton, “What is the History of Books?” (1982)
Anna Muenchrath, “Third Person Random” (2023)
(24 Oct) Canonising Literature
John Guillory, from Cultural Capital (1993)
Pascale Casanova, from The World Republic of Letters (1999)
James English, from The Economy of Prestige (2005)
(31 Oct) Producing Literature
Mark McGurl, from The Program Era (2008)
J. Spahr & S. Young, “The Program Era and the Mainly White Room” (2015)
(7 Nov) Publishing Literature
Richard Jean So, from Redlining Culture (2020)
Evan Brier, from Novel Competition (2024)
(14 Nov) Ireland and Literature
Margaret Kelleher, “Contemporary Literature and Public Value” (2020)
Anne Mulhall, “The Ends of Irish Studies? whiteness, academia, activism” (2020)
(21 Nov) Political Economy of Literature
Sarah Brouillette, from UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary (2019)
Sarah Brouillette, “The Rise and Fall of the Literary Novel since WWII” (2022)
(28 Nov) Dis/Trusting Literature
Sarah Brouillette, “The Author as Social Production” (2024)
Christian Lorentzen, “Literature Without Literature” (2024)
n+1 editors, “Too Much Sociology” (2013)
(5 Dec) Bonus Episode
Jeffrey Lawrence, “Mobilizing Literature” (2024)