Franco Moretti

Bio

Author of Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World (1987), Modern Epic (1995), Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (1998), Graphs, Maps, Trees (2005), The Bourgeois (2013), and Distant Reading (2013). Chief editor of The Novel (2006). Has founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab. Writes often for New Left Review, and has been translated into over twenty languages.

Academic Appointments

• Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, English

Administrative Appointments

• Research Lecturer, English Lit., Universita' di Roma (1975 - 1979)

• Associate Professor, English Lit., Universita' di Salerno (1979 - 1981)

• Professor, English Lit., Universita' di Salerno (1981 - 1983)

• Professor, English Lit, Universita' di Verona (1983 - 1986)

• Professor, Comparative Lit, Universita' di Verona (1986 - 1990)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

• Founder, Center for the Study of the Novel at Stanford University

• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Member, American Philosophical Society

• Member, Academia Europaea

• Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg [Institute of advanced study] in Berlinellow (2012 - 2013)