Franco Moretti

Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. One of the most prominent contemporary literary critics, Moretti is 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 (Princeton, 2006). Has founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and, with Matt Jockers, the Literary Lab. Writes often for New Left Review, and his work has been translated into over twenty languages.

(Source: Faculty webpage, Stanford University.)