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The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the publicIn the field of literary his tory and theory, Franco Moretti is synonymous with innovation. The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative m ethods into the study of the novel, enabling a distant reading that uses computation to analyze literary production over centuries . But at the same time, he was also teaching undergraduates the history of literature. Knowing Moretti, its no surprise that he did nt teach th...[Read more]