Franco Moretti

The Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Contact Information:
Bldg. 460, Rm. 417
Phone: 650 723 4590
moretti@stanford.edu
Franco Moretti has written Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World (1987), Modern Epic (1995), Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (1998), and Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005). Chief editor of The Novel (Princeton, 2006). He has given the Gauss seminars at Princeton and the Beckman lectures at Berkeley, is a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, a scientific advisor to the French Ministry of Research, and a member of AAAS. He writes often for New Left Review.

Education:

1972: Universita' di Roma Laurea

Current Projects:

His curent projects center on a major, five-volume collaborative study of the novel throughout all history and in all forms. This project has found its public articulation in the Center for the Study of the Novel in the Stanford English Department—an institute that dovetails visiting lectures with graduate student presentations, local faculty papers, and general colloquia in order, in the aggregate, to build a new notion of novelistic discourse and the forms of criticism of the modern novel.

Research
Interests:
19th- and early 20th-century literature; history of reading; cultural geography; the novel and narrative theory; interdisciplinary models
Teaching
Current Courses:
Style-(Same as ENGLISH 364)The return of a term that was central in twentieth-century criticism, and has all but disappeared in recent decades. Focus on looking at concepts of style - from various branches of linguistic and literary theory - and examination of some some particularly revealing examples in novels and films. Team-taught with D.A. Miller [UC Berkeley] Spr
Selected Publications
  • Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (London: Verso, 1998).
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  • Modern Epic (London: Verso, 1996).
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  • The Way of the World (London: Verso, 1987).
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  • Signs Taken for Wonders (London: Verso, 1983).
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