Robert Pogue Harrison

Rosina Pierotti Professor and Chair in Italian Literature, Stanford University. Dante scholar, author of book on the Vita Nuova and two broad literary-philosophical studies, Forests (1992), a study of the role of the forest in Western imagination; and The Dominion of the Dead (2003), a study of the meaning of burial rites from the Greeks to the present; as well as a book published in French Rome, la pluie (1994). Most recent works include Gardens : an essay on the human condition (2008) and Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age (2015). These books have been translated into German, French, Italian, and very widely discussed.