Franco Moretti
Franco Moretti (born 1950 in
Sondrio) is an Italian literary historian and theorist. He graduated in Modern Literatures from the
University of Rome in 1972. He has taught at the universities of Salerno (1979–1983) and Verona (1983–1990); in the US, at
Columbia (1990–2000) and
Stanford (2000–2016), where in 2000 he founded the ''Center for the Study of the Novel'', and in 2010, with Matthew Jockers, the ''Stanford Literary Lab''. Moretti has given the Gauss Seminars at
Princeton, the Beckman Lectures at
Berkeley, the Carpenter Lectures at the University of Chicago, and has been a lecturer and visiting professor in many countries, including, until the end of 2019, the Digital Humanities Institute at the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
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