“Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller” in Reading Inside Out

Shortly following the completion of my dissertation, in the summer of 2013 I had the great honor and privilege to interview one of the preeminent literary critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, J. Hillis Miller. That interview was published as “Isn’t It a Beautiful Day? An Interview with J. Hillis Miller” in the fall 2014 issue of boundary 2.

The interview has been reprinted in Reading Inside Out: Interviews and Conversations, a collection of interviews with Miller spanning the latter part of his career, edited by David Jonathan Y. Bayot and recently published by Sussex Academic Press. (The book is also available at a fairly reasonable price on Amazon.com.) In the table of contents below, I’ve provided links to where the other interviews in the volume were originally published (to the best of my ability).

Reading Inside Out: Interviews and Conversations, by J. Hillis Miller

Table of Contents

David Jonathan Y. Bayot, “Preface.”

J. Hillis Miller, “Introduction.”

Imre Salusinszky, “Criticism in Society” (1987).

Gary A. Olson, “Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and the Future of Critical Theory” (1994).

Fengzhen Wang and Shaobo Xie, “Stay! Speak, Speak. I Charge Thee, Speak” (2002).

Julian Wolfreys, “The Degree Zero of Criticism” (2004) and “Why Literature? A Profession” (2005).

Anfeng Sheng, “Literary Studies in Contexts” (2006).

Constanza del Río Álvaro and Francisco Collado-Rodríguez, “On Literature and Ethics” (2006).

Éamonn Dunne, “For the Reader to Come” (2010).

Éamonn Dunne, Michael O’Rourke, Martin McQuillan, Graham Allen, Dragan Kujundžić, and Nicholas Royle, “You See You Ask an Innocent Question and You’ve Got a Long Answer” (2014).