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Professor
Franco Moretti
Stanford University
Language and literary scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2006
The Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of Center for the Study of the Novel. Work on the modern novel combines formal analysis with social history, with a growing emphasis on explanatory models of a scientific nature.
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