Stefan Collini

Unprecedented confusion and scepticism about the value of universities is rife and yet, these institutions of so-called higher education are now more numerous than they have ever been. What are they doing? Why do we need them? What’s going on?

Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge, regular reviewer in the Guardian and TLS, and author of What are Universities For? Stefan Collini has newly-written the illuminating and comprehensive introduction to CUP’s Two Cultures.