John Guillory

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 894 citations indexed

About

John Guillory is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, John Guillory has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 894 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 4 papers in Philosophy and 3 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in John Guillory's work include Themes in Literature Analysis (2 papers), Media, Communication, and Education (2 papers) and Social Media and Politics (1 paper). John Guillory is often cited by papers focused on Themes in Literature Analysis (2 papers), Media, Communication, and Education (2 papers) and Social Media and Politics (1 paper). John Guillory collaborates with scholars based in United States. John Guillory's co-authors include Sharon O’Dair, David Punter, Harold Bloom, Peter Shaw, Barbara Foley, Gerald Graff, Jeffrey J. Williams, M. G. Smith, Nancy Houston Miller and Michael Bérubé and has published in prestigious journals such as Critical Inquiry, The New England Quarterly and Representations.

In The Last Decade

John Guillory

32 papers receiving 410 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation

1994 472 citations Sharon O’Dair, John Guillory South Atlantic Review profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Guillory United States	11	391	271	93	90	89	38	894
Diana Knight United Kingdom	10	479 1.2×	259 1.0×	126 1.4×	88 1.0×	73 0.8×	41	1.0k
Vincent B. Leitch	12	280 0.7×	267 1.0×	160 1.7×	99 1.1×	60 0.7×	39	846
Sharon Marcus United States	12	501 1.3×	301 1.1×	91 1.0×	39 0.4×	161 1.8×	38	1.0k
Steven Ungar United States	7	402 1.0×	215 0.8×	103 1.1×	50 0.6×	56 0.6×	43	902
Franco Moretti United States	10	493 1.3×	280 1.0×	95 1.0×	25 0.3×	91 1.0×	27	954
Emily Apter United States	13	369 0.9×	408 1.5×	121 1.3×	67 0.7×	140 1.6×	73	1.2k
Brian McHale United States	16	650 1.7×	312 1.2×	178 1.9×	92 1.0×	65 0.7×	66	1.2k
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht United States	15	170 0.4×	236 0.9×	108 1.2×	31 0.3×	73 0.8×	103	721
Hans H. Rudnick	10	230 0.6×	278 1.0×	137 1.5×	50 0.6×	53 0.6×	39	821
Robert C. Holub United States	14	164 0.4×	265 1.0×	145 1.6×	71 0.8×	43 0.5×	72	753

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Guillory

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Guillory, John. (2021). Reading Ong reading McLuhan. Textual Practice. 35(9). 1487–1505.

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Guillory, John. (2017). Mercury’s Words. Representations. 138(1). 59–86. 4 indexed citations

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Guillory, John. (2016). Monuments and Documents: Panofsky on the Object of Study in the Humanities. 1(1). 9–30. 3 indexed citations

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Guillory, John. (2015). The Common Core and the Evasion of Curriculum. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 130(3). 666–672. 4 indexed citations

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Guillory, John. (2010). Close Reading: Prologue and Epilogue. ADE Bulletin. 8–14. 15 indexed citations

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Guillory, John. (2009). Genesis of the Media Concept. Critical Inquiry. 36(2). 321–362. 93 indexed citations

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Guillory, John. (2008). How Scholars Read. ADE Bulletin. 8–17. 6 indexed citations

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Stanton, Domna C., Marjorie Perloff, Michael Holquist, et al.. (2005). MLA volume 120 issue 1 Cover and Front matter. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 120(1). f1–f4. 1 indexed citations

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Guillory, John & Jeffrey J. Williams. (2004). Toward a Sociology of Literature: An Interview with John Guillory. Minnesota Review. 61(1). 95–109. 2 indexed citations

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Guillory, John, et al.. (2004). Current Conversations in the Teaching of College-Level Literature. Style. 38(1). 50. 6 indexed citations

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Guillory, John. (2004). The Memo and Modernity. Critical Inquiry. 31(1). 108–132. 37 indexed citations

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Guillory, John. (2002). The Very Idea of Pedagogy. Profession. 2002(1). 164–171. 9 indexed citations

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Guillory, John. (2002). The Sokal Affair and the History of Criticism. Critical Inquiry. 28(2). 470–508. 43 indexed citations

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Guillory, John. (2000). The System of Graduate Education. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 115(5). 1154–1163. 7 indexed citations

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Guillory, John. (1996). Preprofessionalism: What Graduate Students Want. ADE Bulletin. 4–8. 8 indexed citations

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Foley, Barbara, Peter Shaw, Gerald Graff, & John Guillory. (1995). What's at Stake in the Culture Wars. The New England Quarterly. 68(3). 458–458. 3 indexed citations

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O’Dair, Sharon & John Guillory. (1994). Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. South Atlantic Review. 59(2). 130–130. 472 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guillory, John. (1987). Canonical and Non-Canonical: A Critique of the Current Debate. ELH. 54(3). 483–483. 23 indexed citations

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Guillory, John. (1983). The Ideology of Canon-Formation: T. S. Eliot and Cleanth Brooks. Critical Inquiry. 10(1). 173–198. 16 indexed citations

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Guillory, John. (1983). Poetic Authority. Spenser, Milton, and Literary History. Columbia University Press eBooks. 42 indexed citations

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