Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)

Lyonel Trouillot was born in Port-au-Prince in 1956. Although several members of his family were lawyers and he studied law at university, he eventually identified and pursued a greater passion: writing. A poet, novelist, journalist, literary critic, and writer of song lyrics, Trouillot is a prolific member of the Haitian writing community. Several of his […]

The Nouveau Roman flourished in France roughly from the 1950s through the 1970s. The loosely associated figures who acted as protagonists of the New Novel include Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Jean Ricardou, Claude Simon, Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, and others. The New Novel took issue with the conventions of the nineteenth-century realist novel, best represented […]

Alexander Nehamas received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1971 and joined the faculty of the philosophy department at Princeton in 1990. He is also Professor of the Humanities and of Comparative Literature. His interests include Greek philosophy, philosophy of art, European philosophy and literary theory. His books include The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from […]

Nicholas Halmi is University Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in English at Stanford during Winter quarter 2011. His research interests include the Enlightenment and Romantic literature, philosophy, and visual culture; the reception of classical antiquity; the history of literary theory and […]

Héctor Hoyos holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from Cornell University. He was born in Bogotá, where he studied philosophy and literature at the Universidad de los Andes. He is preparing two book-manuscripts, entitled Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel and El deber de la travesura: César Aira y la crítica cultural. His interests […]

Mace Perlman is an actor, teacher, director, and translator whose theatrical training began with two years under Marcel Marceau at his International School of Mimodrama in Paris. Following studies at Stanford University (BA in Humanities Special Programs: Baroque Studies, MA in Humanities), Mace trained and worked for six years at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan […]

Caroline Winterer is an intellectual and cultural historian of early America in its transatlantic contexts. Her focus is the history of scholarship, books, reading, libraries, and education, as well as the history of art and material culture. She is also interested in the many ways in which early Americans have made sense of the past, […]

Andrea Nightingale has worked primarily on Greek and Roman philosophy and literature. She is currently researching and writing on the philosophy and literature of ecology (in the modern and postmodern periods). She has been awarded a fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center, an ACLS Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is presently serving as a […]

The Ethos of “Cool”: Robert Harrison on Jim Morrison and The Doors “Hot is momentary. It quickly turns to ashes. But cool stays cool.” Fifty years ago, the award-winning album The Doors was released into the world – a landmark debut for what would become L.A.’s biggest band. The Doors and its lead singer Jim Morrison have […]

Laura Wittman primarily works on 19th- and 20th-century Italian and French literature in a comparative perspective, and in particular is interested in connections between modernity, a new spirituality, the twentieth century religion of politics, and the literary expressions thereof. She is also interested in exploring the role of the ineffable, the mystical, and the body in […]