ROMANCE STUDIES 166 - Calvino and Computation | Romance Languages & Literatures

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

The seminar is built around a sequence of fundamental questions regarding the literary disciplines and media studies, their history and epistemology. Discussions are instigated by readings in philology, stylistics, the history of ideas, semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, film and media theory, genetic criticism, literary sociology, cultural studies, and digital humanities.

Instructor

Jeffrey Schnapp

jeffrey@metalab.harvard.edu

Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature; Graduate School of Design

Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Research Interests: Experimental humanities; The material history of literature; Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio; 20th-century Italian architecture and design; The Fascist Decades; Futurism. Faculty director and founder: metaLAB (at) Harvard Faculty co...