As a professor, Frow specializes in teaching humanities and social sciences, possessing a broad skillset ranging from technical work in literary theory and discourse analysis to empirical- and statistically-based sociology.
[citation needed] Frow later worked on the framework elaborated in this book, although he has subsequently moved away from a commitment to Marxism towards a more Foucauldian understanding of social and discursive power.
[citation needed] The book formulated an account of the 'knowledge class' of information workers and argued that it has specific interests in the field of culture.
[citation needed] Frow's most recent books have focused on questions of literary theory and its relation to cultural studies.
He moved to the University of Edinburgh as the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in 2000, where he was also the director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
His work has been widely reprinted and has been translated into many languages including Chinese, Persian, Japanese, French, and Portuguese.