Franco Moretti

Born in Sondrio in 1950, Franco Moretti graduated in Modern Literatures from the University of Rome in 1972, after writing a dissertation on the British poets and intellectuals of the 1930s. He was initially a researcher at the Universities of Pescara and Rome (1972–1979), one of the founding editors of the journals Calibano and Il leviatano, and a contributor to the cultural pages of the new left daily newspaper il manifesto. In 1977–78 he was a Fulbright scholar at Occidental College. Later, he taught English and Comparative Literature at the Universities of Salerno (1979–1983), Verona (1983–1990), Columbia (1990–2000) and Stanford (2000–2016), where in 2000 he founded the [https://novel.stanford.edu/ Center for the Study of the Novel], and in 2010, with Matthew Jockers, the [https://litlab.stanford.edu/ Stanford Literary Lab].{{Citation |last=Allison |first=Sarah |title=Quantitative Formalism: An Experiment |date=2011-01-15 |work=Literary Lab |location=Pamphlet 1 |page=26 |url=https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet1.pdf |publisher=Stanford University |issn=2164-3431 |eissn=2164-1757 |last2=Heuser |first2=Ryan |last3=Jockers |first3=Matthew |last4=Moretti |first4=Franco |last5=Witmore |first5=Michael}} A volume collecting a selection of Literary Lab pamphlets has recently been translated into French, German, Spanish, and Italian, while individual pamphlets have appeared into more than a dozen languages, including Chinese, Russian, Turkish and Korean.{{Cite book |last1=Moretti |first1=Franco |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y6uMDwAAQBAJ |title=La letteratura in laboratorio |last2=Episcopo |first2=Giuseppe |date=2019-01-30 |publisher=FedOA - Federico II University Press |isbn=978-88-6887-051-5 |language=it}}

Over the years, Moretti has been visiting professor at various universities in Europe and North America – including Copenhagen, Toronto, La Sapienza, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris – twice a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1999–2000, 2012–2013), advisor of the French Ministry for Education, and member of the "Digital Humanities Institute" of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland (2016–2019).{{citation |title=Franco Moretti |website=École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |url=https://people.epfl.ch/franco.moretti?lang=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103005010/https://people.epfl.ch/franco.moretti?lang=en |archive-date=2019-01-03 }} He has given the Gauss Seminars at Princeton, the Beckman Lectures at Berkeley, and the Carpenter Lectures at the University of Chicago, the Patten Lectures at Indiana University{{Cite web |title=Patten lecture: Franco Moretti - "Patterns and Interpretation" |url=https://broadcast.iu.edu/events/patten-lecture-moretti1.html |access-date=2022-06-10 |website=Indiana University Broadcast |language=en}} and the Iser lecture at the University of Konstanz.{{Cite web |title=Wolfgang-Iser-Lecture - Exzellenzcluster "Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration" |url=https://www.exc16.uni-konstanz.de/iser-lecture.html |access-date=2022-06-10 |website=www.exc16.uni-konstanz.de}} The work of this "great iconoclast of literary criticism", as The Guardian once called him,{{Cite news|last=Sutherland|first=John|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jan/09/highereducation.academicexperts|title=The ideas interview: Franco Moretti|date=2006-01-09|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-02-11|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} has been translated into 30 languages, and has been the object of two collections of essays – Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees. Critical Responses to Franco Moretti,{{Cite book|title=Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Critical Responses to Franco Moretti|year=2011}} in 2011, and Lire de près, de loin,{{Cite book|url=https://classiques-garnier.com/lire-de-pres-de-loin-close-vs-distant-reading.html|title=Lire de près, de loin Close vs distant reading|date=2014-04-24|publisher=Classiques Garnier|isbn=978-2-8124-2124-2|series=Théorie littéraire, n° 3 in Rencontres|location=Paris|doi=10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-2126-6|author1=(:Unap)}} in 2014. The essays Moretti collected in Distant Reading received in 2014 the prize of the "National Book Critics' Circle".{{Cite web|url=http://blog.bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-award-winners-for-publishing-year-20|title=National Book Critics Circle: National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners for Publishing Year 2013 - Critical Mass Blog|website=blog.bookcritics.org|access-date=2020-02-11|archive-date=2020-02-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216115607/http://blog.bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-award-winners-for-publishing-year-20|url-status=dead}} The Los Angeles Review of Books and PMLA have devoted special forums to his work, as has the Russian journal New Literary History in 2018, and the French journal Romantisme in 2021. His work – and in particular the formula "distant reading", presented in the essay "Conjectures on World Literature"{{Citation |title=Franco Moretti Conjectures on World Literature and More Conjectures (2000/2003) |date=2012-05-31 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203721209-25 |work=World Literature |pages=182–197 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9780203721209-25 |isbn=978-0-203-72120-9 |access-date=2022-06-10|url-access=subscription }}– has inspired books{{Cite journal |last=Krobb |first=Florian |date=2015-09-25 |title=Distant Readings. Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century. Hg. von Matt Erlin und Lynne Tatlock. Rochester, NY 2014 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jdrg-2015-0019 |journal=Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=182–188 |doi=10.1515/jdrg-2015-0019 |s2cid=164538145 |issn=1865-8857|url-access=subscription }} and journal issues,{{Cite web |title=arhiva |url=https://revistavatra.org/tag/arhiva-2/ |access-date=2022-06-10 |website=revistavatra.org |language=ro-RO}} and generated work in the disparate fields of literary criticism,{{Citation |last=Underwood |first=Ted |title=Distant Reading and Recent Intellectual History |date=2016-05-18 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/j.ctt1cn6thb.47 |work=Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 |pages=530–533 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |doi=10.5749/j.ctt1cn6thb.47 |isbn=9781452951485 |access-date=2022-06-10|url-access=subscription }} philosophy,{{Cite web |title=Distant Reading {{!}} Distant Reading and Data-Driven Research in the History of Philosophy |url=https://dr2blog.hcommons.org/category/distant-reading/ |access-date=2022-06-10 |language=en-US}} political science,{{Citation |last1=Bartsch |first1=Sabine |title=Exploring Churchill's political speeches : The case for digitality in interdisciplinary linguistics and history teaching |date=2020 |url=https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/17202/ |pages=121–143 |place=Darmstadt |language=en |access-date=2022-06-10 |last2=Mares |first2=Detlev|doi=10.25534/tuprints-00017202 }} law,{{Citation |last1=Livermore |first1=Michael A. |title=Distant Reading the Law |date=2019-05-29 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.37911/9781947864085.01 |work=Law as Data |pages=3–19 |publisher=SFI Press |access-date=2022-06-10 |last2=Rockmore |first2=Daniel N.|doi=10.37911/9781947864085.01 |isbn=9781947864085 |s2cid=216638118 |url-access=subscription }} plus conferences and long-term research projects in several countries.{{Cite web |last=Billig |date=2019-11-25 |title=Conference on Distant Reading |url=https://billig.fcsh.unl.pt/2019/11/25/conference-of-distant-reading/ |access-date=2022-06-10 |website=billig |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Introduction to Distant Reading Techniques with Voyant Tools, Multilingual Edition - researchr publication |url=https://researchr.org/publication/SinclairR12-0 |access-date=2022-06-10 |website=researchr.org}}{{Cite web |last=Shgregg |date=2015-07-06 |title=Distant reading a conference |url=https://shgregg.com/2015/07/06/distant-reading-a-conference/ |access-date=2022-06-10 |website=Manicule |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) – Distant Reading for European Literary History |url=https://www.distant-reading.net/eltec/ |access-date=2022-06-10 |language=en-US}} Most recently, Moretti's work has been examined in the collection Critica sperimentale, with contributions by Gisèle Sapiro, Patricia McManus, Guido Mazzoni, Francoise Lavocat, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Stefano Ercolino, Jérôme David and others.{{Cite book |last1=De Cristofaro |first1=Francesco |last2=Ercolino |first2=Stefano |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1313794912 |title=Critica sperimentale : Franco Moretti e la letteratura |date=2021 |publisher=Carocci editore |isbn=978-88-290-0445-4 |oclc=1313794912}}

In 2017, Kimberly Latta accused Moretti, in a Facebook post, of having sexually assaulted her in 1985.{{Cite web|url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/11/09/english-professor-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-former-graduate-student/|title=Retired English professor accused of sexual assault by former graduate student|date=2017-11-10|website=The Stanford Daily|access-date=2020-02-11}} He denied the accusation, stating their relationship had been fully consensual.{{Cite news|last1=Dickerson|first1=Caitlin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/us/colleges-sexual-harassment.html|title=Two Colleges Bound by History Are Roiled by the #MeToo Moment|date=2017-12-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-02-11|last2=Saul|first2=Stephanie|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} According to Latta, Moretti threatened he would destroy her career if she spoke about his behavior, and she was afraid of being punished somehow for speaking out.{{Cite web|url=https://stanfordpolitics.org/2019/06/14/stanford-one-year-after-metoo-how-stanfords-response-failed-victims-of-sexual-assault/|title=Stanford After #MeToo|date=2019-09-14|website=Stanford Politics|access-date=2023-09-14}} Later, two other allegations of harassment from the 1990s emerged, both denied by Moretti. The Stanford Daily reported about a woman who recalled she had set a dog loose to stop Moretti’s unreciprocated advances; in that same Daily article, another graduate student at Johns Hopkins University said that Moretti had inappropriately touched her.{{Cite web|url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/11/16/harassment-assault-allegations-against-moretti-span-three-campuses/|title=Harassment, assault allegations against Moretti span three campuses|date=2017-11-16|website=The Stanford Daily|access-date=2020-02-11}} No formal proceeding of any sort was ever opened against him. A Stanford spokesperson declared that the university was reviewing the case and "determining whether there are any actions for Stanford to take",{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailycal.org/2017/11/10/former-uc-berkeley-visiting-professor-accused-sex-assault-graduate-student/|title=Former UC Berkeley visiting professor accused of sex assault by then-student|last1=Shyamsundar|first1=Harini|last2=Wong|first2=Ashley|date=2017-11-10|website=The Daily Californian|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-11}} and the process was concluded without any action ever being taken.{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/146049/a-professor-kind-like-priest/|title=A-Professor-is-Kind-Like-a-Priest|date=2017-11-30|magazine=The New Republic|access-date=2021-12-20}}

Moretti is currently emeritus professor at Stanford,{{citation |title=Franco Moretti |website=Stanford Department of English |publisher=Stanford University |url=https://english.stanford.edu/people/franco-moretti}} and a "permanent fellow" at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.{{citation |title=Franco Moretti, Permanent Fellow |website= Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin|url=https://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/fellows/fellowfinder/detail/9998-moretti-franco/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828184225/https://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/fellows/fellowfinder/detail/9998-moretti-franco/ |archive-date=2019-08-28 }} He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Philosophical Society, and of the scientific board of the "Institute for World Literature" at Harvard. He is a regular contributor to New Left Review, and has continued to advise doctoral students in various countries (Tartu, Lausanne, Harvard, Paris, Siena), receiving an honorary doctorate from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, and becoming a member of the Brno Narratological Circle. His latest book – Far Country. Scenes from American Culture, published simultaneously in Italy, the United States and Britain in 2019 – is framed by a long reflection on his first and last university courses, that covers the years from 1979 to 2016;{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/franco-moretti/far-country/|title=FAR COUNTRY by Franco Moretti {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en}} the German edition{{Cite web |title=Franco Moretti: Ein fernes Land - Konstanz University Press |url=https://www.k-up.de/9783835391185-ein-fernes-land.html |access-date=2022-06-10 |website=www.k-up.de}} – Ein fernes Land, Konstanz University Press, 2020 – has been saluted as a "future standard for the field" and "a mandatory reading for all those who are beginning to study the humanities".{{Cite web |title=Franco Moretti: "Ein fernes Land" - Die kulturellen Wurzeln der USA |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/franco-moretti-ein-fernes-land-die-kulturellen-wurzeln-der-100.html |access-date=2022-06-10 |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |language=de}} During the pandemic of 2020–22, Moretti has continued to give lectures online for audiences in Copenhagen, Berlin, Delhi, Naples, São Paulo and more.

He is the brother of Italian filmmaker and {{Lang|fr|Palme d'Or|italic=no}}-winner Nanni Moretti. He played roles in three films directed by his brother: The Defeat (La sconfitta, 1973, short), Pâté de bourgeois (1973, short), and I Am Self Sufficient (Io sono un autarchico, 1976).

Moretti has made several contributions to literary history and theory. Some ideas popularized by Moretti are traceable to earlier sources. Opposing subjective interpretations of literature, Moretti proposed a number of materialistic, empirical approaches to literature and other arts. His major contributions were in the domains of literary geography (now largely associated with Moretti's name{{Cite book|last1=Piatti|first1=Barbara|last2=Bär|first2=Hans Rudolf|last3=Reuschel|first3=Anne-Kathrin|last4=Hurni|first4=Lorenz|last5=Cartwright|first5=William|title=Cartography and Art |chapter=Mapping Literature: Towards a Geography of Fiction |pages=1–16|doi=10.1007/978-3-540-68569-2_15|series=Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography|year=2009|isbn=978-3-540-68567-8}}) and digital humanities; he also contributed to combining literary studies with the world-systems analysis and Darwinian theory of evolution. Moretti has coined several concepts that are now widely used in the humanities, the main of which is distant reading.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-what-is-distant-reading.html|title=What is distant reading?|last=Schulz|first=Kathryn|date=June 24, 2011|website=The New York Times}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.versobooks.com/books/1421-distant-reading|title=Distant Reading|last=Moretti|first=Franco|date=June 2013|publisher=Verso Books|isbn=9781781680841}} Distant reading is opposed to close reading: a traditional approach in literary studies when a critic closely examines a separate text, traces all the possible intertextual connections. Distant reading has the opposite goal: the scholar should "step back" from an individual text to see a larger picture: for example, the history of a genre during a century or the evolution of a particular artistic device over many decades.{{Cite book|title=Distant Reading|last=Moretti|first=Franco|publisher=Verso|year=2013}}

Moretti's scientific work has largely focused on European bourgeois culture, beginning with The Way of the World. The Bildungsroman in European Culture (1987, second enlarged ed. 2000). The book examines the great tradition of the novel of youth – Wilhelm Meister, Pride and Prejudice, The Red and the Black, Eugene Onegin, Lost Illusions, Great Expectations, Sentimental Education, Middlemarch ... – considered as the "symbolic form" that allowed nineteenth-century culture to make sense of the political revolutions and economic transformations of western modernity. Modern Epic. The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez (1996),{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/modernepicworlds0000more|url-access=registration|title=Modern Epic: The World-system from Goethe to García Márquez|last=Moretti|first=Franco|date=1996|publisher=Verso|isbn=978-1-85984-934-7|language=en}} broadened the analysis in space and time, examining texts that transcend national cultures in trying to represent the planetary system of capitalism: Faust, Moby-Dick, Wagner's Ring, Ulysses, The Waste Land, and the great narratives of Latin-American magic realism. More recently, The Bourgeois. Between History and Literature (2013){{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/the-bourgeois-between-history-and-literature-by-franco-moretti/2005020.article|title=The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature by Franco Moretti|date=2013-06-27|website=Times Higher Education (THE)|language=en|access-date=2019-01-30}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.zeit.de/2014/49/der-bourgeois-franco-moretti|title=Der Bourgeois: Arbeiten statt feiern|last=Cammann|first=Alexander|date=2014-12-11|work=Die Zeit|access-date=2019-01-30|language=de-DE|issn=0044-2070}} has completed this trilogy of bourgeois existence by tracing its historical keywords ("useful", "comfort", "efficiency", "seriousness", "roba"{{what|date=March 2023}}...), and following the metamorphoses of "prose" from Defoe to Ibsen and Max Weber.

Moretti has offered a new – cartographic – perspective on literature in his Atlas of the European Novel (1997).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ja2MUXS_YQUC|title=Atlas of the European Novel, 1800–1900|last=Moretti|first=Franco|isbn=9781859842249|year=1999|publisher=Verso }} On the one hand, he demonstrated geographic patterns that can be traced within literature: the geography of Jane Austen's characters, places of origin of villains in British literature, the locations of Balzac's novels, etc. This, though, was hardly original: Vladimir Nabokov famously taught novelists such as Jane Austen and James Joyce with the aid of location maps. On the other hand, Moretti suggested studying the geography of literary economics: how and why translations of novels spread across Europe, how book selection in small town libraries differ from book selection in the libraries in large cities, etc.

Together with Matthew Jockers, Moretti founded Stanford Literary Lab in 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://litlab.stanford.edu/|title=Stanford Literary Lab}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-attempt-to-discover-the-laws-of-literature|title=An Attempt to Discover the Laws of Literature|last=Rothman|first=Joshua|magazine=The New Yorker |date=March 20, 2014}} Already in his Atlas of the European Novel, Moretti approached literature with quantitative methods. The Literary Lab continued this direction of work, but this time quantifying literature via the tools of digital text analysis. Those methods include counting word frequencies, topic modeling, building character networks,{{Cite journal|last=Moretti|first=Franco|date=May 1, 2011|title=Network Theory, Plot Analysis|url=https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet2.pdf|journal=Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlets}} etc. The results of Lab's work were published as Pamphlets{{Cite web|url=https://litlab.stanford.edu/pamphlets/|title=Pamphlets of Stanford Literary Lab}} of the Literary Lab (the history of how Lab arrived at this unusual publication format is described by Moretti in Pamphlet 12{{Cite journal|last=Moretti|first=Franco|date=April 2016|title=Literature, Measured|url=https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet12.pdf|journal=Pamphlets of Stanford Literary Lab}}). Stanford Literary Lab became one of the pioneering groups pursuing computational criticism, and a visible actor in the new field of digital humanities. Equally novel was the concept of the humanities "lab", as it is mostly associated with hard sciences.

In many of his works, Moretti relies on one strand of historical macrosociology – world-systems analysis – and its main theorist, Immanuel Wallerstein. World-systems analysis divides all countries into three groups: core, semi-peripheral, and peripheral. Core countries dominate the world by having a monopoly over some kind of products, which they export to the peripheral and semi-peripheral countries. Over time, the latter countries learn how to produce the much needed products themselves, but core countries usually acquire monopolies over other important products, and so the structure of the world-system remains relatively stable.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dukeupress.edu/world-systems-analysis|title=World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction|last=Wallerstein|first=Immanuel}} Moretti suggested that the same principle may work in the domain of arts. Certain countries have monopoly over producing film or literary forms, while other countries import those forms. According to Moretti, in the 19th century England and France constituted the core of the literary world-system,{{Cite book|title=Atlas of the European Novel, 1800–1900|last=Moretti|first=Franco|publisher=Verso|year=1998}} exporting novels worldwide; today, Hollywood, which exports movies has a similar role.{{Cite journal|last=Moretti|first=Franco|date=2001|title=Planet Hollywood|url=https://newleftreview.org/II/9/franco-moretti-planet-hollywood|journal=New Left Review|volume=9}}

Applying Darwinian theory to literature is an idea that dates back to the late 19th century (initial attempts were made by Ferdinand Brunetière and Alexander Veselovsky). Literary Darwinism becomes a popular movement in 20th century literary criticism. Joseph Carroll, Denis Dutton, Jonathan Gottschall, Brian Boyd, Ellen Spolsky, Nancy Easterlin, among others, contributed to the evolutionary literary studies. In their wake, Moretti used the techniques of "distant reading": statistics and computation to study literary evolution. The interest in Darwin's theory in the humanities coincided with the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of the new research domain called cultural evolution.{{Cite book|url=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo8787504.html|title=Cultural Evolution|last=Mesoudi|first=Alex|publisher=Chicago University Press|year=2011}}{{Cite book|url=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo3615170.html|title=Not By Genes Alone|last1=Richerson|first1=Peter J.|last2=Boyd|first2=Robert|publisher=Chicago University Press|year=2005}}

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• {{cite journal|title=Narrative Markets, ca. 1850|journal=Review (Fernand Braudel Center)|date=April 1997|volume=20|number=2|pages=151–174}}
• {{cite journal|title=Structure, Change, and Survival: A Response to Winthrop-Young|journal=Diacritics|date=1999|volume=29|number=2|pages=41–42|doi=10.1353/dia.1999.0014|s2cid=143604501|last1=Moretti|first1=Franco}}
• {{cite journal|title=The Slaughterhouse of Literature|journal=Modern Language Quarterly|date=2000|volume=61|number=1|pages=207–228|doi=10.1215/00267929-61-1-207|s2cid=161329715|last1=Moretti|first1=F.}}
• {{cite journal|title=Conjectures on World Literature|journal=New Left Review|date=January 2000|number=1|page=54}}
• {{cite journal|title='New York Times' Obituaries|journal=New Left Review|date=March 2000|number=2|page=104}}
• {{cite journal|title=MoMA 2000—The Capitulation|journal=New Left Review|date=July 2000|number=4|page=98}}
• {{cite journal|title=Markets of the Mind|journal=New Left Review|date=September 2000|number=5|page=111}}
• {{cite journal|title=Planet Hollywood|journal=New Left Review|date=May 2001|number=9|page=90}}
• {{cite journal|title=More Conjectures|journal=New Left Review|date=March 2003|number=20|page=73}}
• {{cite journal|title=Graphs, Maps, Trees|url=https://www.mat.ucsb.edu/g.legrady/academic/courses/09w259/Moretti_graphs.pdf|journal=New Left Review|date=November 2003|number=24|pages=67}}
• {{cite journal|title=Graphs, Maps, Trees—2|journal=New Left Review|date=March 2004|number=26|pages=79–103}}
• {{cite journal|title=Graphs, Maps, Trees—3|journal=New Left Review|date=July 2004|number=28|pages=43–63}}
• {{cite journal|title=World-Systems Analysis, Evolutionary Theory, 'Weltliteratur'|journal=Review (Fernand Braudel Center)|date=January 2005|volume=28|number=3|pages=217–228}}
• {{cite journal|title=The end of the beginning: A reply to Christopher Prendergast (Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History)|journal=New Left Review|date=September 2006|number=41|page=71}}
• {{cite journal|title=Cartes|journal=Romantisme|date=2007|number=4|page=11}}
• {{cite journal|title=The novel: History and Theory|journal=New Left Review|date=July 2008|number=52|pages=111–124}}
• {{cite journal|title=Style, Inc. Reflections on Seven Thousand Titles (British Novels, 1740–1850)|journal=Critical Inquiry|date=2009|volume=36|number=1pages=134–158}}
• {{cite journal|title=Critical ResponseII. Relatively Blunt|journal=Critical Inquiry|date=2009|volume=36|number=1|pages=172–174|doi=10.1086/606127|s2cid=162326902|last1=Moretti|first1=Franco}}
• {{cite journal|title=The Grey Area: Ibsen and the Spirit of Capitalism|journal=New Left Review|date=January 2010|number=61|pages=117–131|url=https://newleftreview.org/II/61/franco-moretti-the-grey-area |last1=Moretti |first1=Franco }}
• {{cite journal|title=History of the Novel, Theory of the Novel|journal=Novel|date=Spring 2010|volume=43|number=1|pages=1–10|doi=10.1215/00295132-2009-055|last1=Moretti|first1=F.|doi-access=free}}
• {{cite journal|title=Network Theory, Plot Analysis|journal=New Left Review|pages=80–102|date=March 2011|number=68|url=https://newleftreview.org/II/68/franco-moretti-network-theory-plot-analysis|series=II|last1=Moretti|first1=Franco}}
• {{cite journal|title=Introduction to 'Learning to Read Data'|journal=Victorian Studies|date=Autumn 2011|volume=54|number=1|pages=6, 186}}
• {{cite journal|title=Fog|journal=New Left Review|date=May 2013|number=81|pages=59–92|url=https://newleftreview.org/II/81/franco-moretti-fog|series=II|last1=Moretti|first1=Franco}}
• {{cite journal|title=Sobre l'evolució literària|journal=L'Espill|date=2013|number=43|pages=150–167}}
• {{cite journal|title=Middle-Class Value Judgement|last1=Moretti|first1=Franco|last2=Sanders|first2=Valerie|last3=Shook|first3=Karen|journal=The Times Higher Education Supplement|date=June 27, 2013|number=2107|page=46}}
• {{cite journal|title= 'Operationalizing' or, the Function of Measurement in Literary Theory|journal=New Left Review|date=November 2013|number=84|pages=103–119|url=https://newleftreview.org/II/84/franco-moretti-operationalizing|series=II|last1=Moretti|first1=Franco}}
• {{cite journal|title=Lukac's Theory of the Novel|journal=New Left Review|year=2015|number=91|pages=39–44|url=https://newleftreview.org/II/91/franco-moretti-lukacs-s-theory-of-the-novel|series=II|last1=Moretti|first1=Franco}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Moretti|first1=Franco|last2=Pestre|first2=Dominique|title=Bankspeak: The Language of World Bank Reports|journal=New Left Review|year=2015|number=92|pages=75–99|url=https://newleftreview.org/II/92/franco-moretti-dominique-pestre-bankspeak|series=II}}

• 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism), winner for Distant Reading{{cite web |url=http://www.mhpbooks.com/nbcc-finalists-announced/ |title=NBCC finalists announced |work=Melville House Publishing |author=Kirsten Reach |date=January 14, 2014 |access-date=January 14, 2014 |archive-date=January 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108161918/http://www.mhpbooks.com/nbcc-finalists-announced/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/announcing-the-national-book-critics-awards-finalists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115014055/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/announcing-the-national-book-critics-awards-finalists |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 15, 2014 |title=Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013 |publisher=National Book Critics Circle |date=January 14, 2014 |access-date=January 14, 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-award-winners-for-publishing-year-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314062439/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-award-winners-for-publishing-year-20 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 14, 2014 |title=National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners for Publishing Year 2013 |publisher=National Book Critics Circle|date=March 13, 2014}}
• 2015 Moretti is elected a permanent fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced StudyWissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, [https://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/fellows/permanent-fellows/ "The Permanent Fellows "], Franco Moretti, 1. July 2018

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• [https://stanfordwho.stanford.edu/SWApp/detailAction.do?key=DS824G129&search=Moretti&soundex=&stanfordonly=&affilfilter=everyone&filters= Franco Moretti at Stanford University Department of English] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201223249/https://stanfordwho.stanford.edu/SWApp/detailAction.do?key=DS824G129&search=Moretti&soundex=&stanfordonly=&affilfilter=everyone&filters= |date=2014-02-01 }}
• [http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/april26/aaas-042606.html Appointment to American Academy of Arts and Sciences] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060428093512/http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/april26/aaas-042606.html |date=2006-04-28 }}
• [https://www.amazon.com/Distant-Reading-ebook/dp/B00CWAA98Y Distant reading] on Amazon
• [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1844670260/ Graphs, Maps, Trees] on Amazon
• [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8150.html Princeton UP website for Moretti, ed., The Novel]
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