Lesley Johnson AM FAHA is Professor Emeritus of both Griffith University and the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. She was a Deputy Vice Chancellor for the last 14 years of her academic career. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities of which she was President for 3 years and on the Council for 8 years from 2010 to 2017. She was awarded an Order of Australia in 2010. She is considered a leading figure in cultural studies in Australia, a field in which she began working in 1973. Her research interests are in the field of the history of Australian cultural institutions and, currently in the history of the humanities in Australia.

• 1. Introduction: Intellectual and their Ideas 2. Matthew Arnold 3. Arnold’s Contemporaries 4. Entr’acte: 1890-1920 5. F. R. Leavis 6. Leavis’ Contemporaries 7. Raymond Williams 8. Williams’ Contemporaries 9. Conclusion: Cultural Studies

Lesley Johnson AM FAHA is Professor Emeritus of both Griffith University and the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. She was a Deputy Vice Chancellor for the last 14 years of her academic career. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities of which she was President for 3 years and on the Council for 8 years from 2010 to 2017. She was awarded an Order of Australia in 2010. She is considered a leading figure in cultural studies in Australia, a field in which she began working in 1973. Her research interests are in the field of the history of Australian cultural institutions and, currently in the history of the humanities in Australia.

• 1. Introduction: Intellectual and their Ideas 2. Matthew Arnold 3. Arnold’s Contemporaries 4. Entr’acte: 1890-1920 5. F. R. Leavis 6. Leavis’ Contemporaries 7. Raymond Williams 8. Williams’ Contemporaries 9. Conclusion: Cultural Studies