Actually, he may be here already.

BUT apropos of this week’s readings, HE IS IN TOWN!

GC Digital Fellow Ms. Erin Glass gave me the heads up — Franco Moretti will be giving two talks this week at NYU (info pasted below).

from the NYU site:

• Wednesday, March 4th, 6:00 p.m.
  First Wednesday Speaker Series and English Dept. Annual Goldstone Lecture: “Micromégas: The very small, the very large, and the object of Digital Humanities,” Franco Moretti (Stanford University)

  Location: Room 102, Cantor Film Center
• Thursday, March 5th, 12:30 p.m.
  Goldstone Seminar: “Canon/Archive. Large-scale Dynamics in the Literary Field,” Franco Moretti (Stanford University)

  Please RSVP here.

  Location: The Event Space, 244 Greene St.

  I am going and will report back for those who can’t make it!

  -Jojo