Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

STEPHEN HINTON is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. Professor of Music and, by courtesy, German, he also serves as the Denning Family Director of the Arts Initiative and the Stanford Institute for Creative and the Arts (SiCa). From 2006-2010 he was Senior Associate Dean for Humanities & Arts in the School […]

Larry Zaroff is a Senior Research Scholar with the Center for Biomedical Ethics and also a Consulting Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and the Program in Human Biology. Recently, he was selected to receive the Human Biology Award for Excellence in Faculty Advising.  He has also been chosen as Associated Students of Stanford University […]

Georges Lavaudant is one of the most renowned theater directors in France today. Over the course of his career, he has directed the Théâtre national populaire at Villeurbanne and the Théâtre de l'Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, among others. He has directed and acted in countless plays and operas over the years. Some of his productions include […]

Richard Martin is Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of Classics at Stanford University. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1981 and has also taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Berkeley. Among his publications are the books “Healing, Sacrifice, and Battle: Amechania  and Related Concepts in Early Greek Poetry” (1983), “The Language of Heroes: Speech and […]

Martin W. Lewis is lecturer in international history and interim director of the program in International Relations at Stanford University. He graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in Environmental Studies in 1979, and received a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in geography in 1987. His dissertation, and first book, “Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, […]

Denise Gigante is a professor in the English Department at Stanford University and teaches eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature with a focus on Romanticism. Her books include “The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George” (Harvard UP, 2011), “Life: Organic Form and Romanticism” (Yale UP, 2009), “The Great Age of the English Essay: An […]

Richard Saller is the Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities & Sciences at Stanford University. He is also the Kleinheinz Family Professor of European Studies as well as Professor of Classics and History. Dean Saller received Bachelor’s degrees in both History and Greek at the University of Illinois in […]

Adrian Daub is Assistant Professor of German at Stanford University. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008.  He is the author, among other things, of a German-language study on the cultural reception of four-handed piano playing, “Zwillingshafte Gebärden – Zur […]

Patrick Hunt earned a Ph.D. from the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, University of London in 1991. He has been teaching humanities, the arts, archaeology and mythology at Stanford University since 1993. His Hannibal Expedition was sponsored in 2007-2008 by the National Geographic Society’s Expedition Council. He is Director of the Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project 1994-2011. […]

Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford and specializes in contemporary European philosophy and its relation to religious questions, with particular interests in Heidegger and Roman Catholicism. Before coming to Stanford he taught at Loyola University of Chicago since 1972. He received his B.A. from St. Patrick's College and his Ph.D. from Fordham […]