Robert Pogue Harrison
Encyclopedia
Robert Pogue Harrison (born 1954) is Professor of Italian
and Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature
at Stanford University
. His interests include the Italian lyric, Dante Alighieri
, Vico
, Phenomenology, and Literary Theory
. He is the author of multiple books, including The Dominion of the Dead, and he is host of the Stanford radio program Entitled Opinions. He plays lead guitar for the cerebral rock band Glass Wave
.
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
and Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature
Italian literature
Italian literature is literature written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italians or in Italy in other languages spoken in Italy, often languages that are closely related to modern Italian....
at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. His interests include the Italian lyric, Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, mononymously referred to as Dante , was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia ...
, Vico
Giambattista Vico
Giovanni Battista ' Vico or Vigo was an Italian political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist....
, Phenomenology, and Literary Theory
Literary theory
Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. However, literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes—in addition to, or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense—considerations of...
. He is the author of multiple books, including The Dominion of the Dead, and he is host of the Stanford radio program Entitled Opinions. He plays lead guitar for the cerebral rock band Glass Wave
Glass Wave
Glass Wave is a Bay Area cerebral rock band formed in 2008 by Robert Pogue Harrison and Dan Edelstein, both professors of literature at Stanford University. The band was conceived originally as a literary musical collaboration for their team-taught Introduction to the Humanities course entitled...
.