Abstract: Mike Hill is Professor of English at State University of New York at Albany and a renowned literary critic. He has published many books on a wide range of topics, including Whiteness: A Critical Reader (1997), Masses, Classes, and the Public Sphere (2001), After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority (2004), and The Other Adam Smith (2015) which, since its translation into Chinese, has been widely acclaimed in the country. In December 2019, during his visit at Shanghai International Studies University at the invitation of the university's Institute of Literary Studies, Hill was interviewed by Li Feng, a professor at SISU. In the interview, Hill reviews his journey of cross-disciplinary studies from white critique to Adam Smith, the English novel, war studies, and beyond. He particularly talks about such important issues as the cultural significance of white critique and its application to literary research, Adam Smith's connections with literary narrative, the origin and development of English as a discipline, and the special role China may play in this discipline in the future.

Key words: Mike Hill, cross-disciplinary studies, race studies, white critique, Adam Smith, eighteen-century novel