Robert Pogue Harrison

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Pogue Harrison is Professor of Italian and Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford University. Professor Harrison is also Chair of the Department of French and Italian. 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. He was born in Izmir, Turkey, and raised in Rome. He is the host of the podcast Entitled Opinions (On Life and Literature). Professor Harrison received his doctorate in romance studies from Cornell University in 1984, with a dissertation on Dante's La Vita Nuova. In 1985 he accepted a visiting assistant professorship in the Department of French and Italian at Stanford. In 1986 he joined the faculty as an assistant professor. He was granted tenure in 1992 and was promoted to full professor in 1995. In 1997 Stanford offered him the Rosina Pierotti Chair. In 2002, he was named chair of the Department of French and Italian.