Franco Moretti, professor of English and Comparative Literature
and
co-director of the Stanford Literary Lab comments.

'Why the West Rules - For Now', by History and
Classics
Professor, Ian Morris, is named one of this year's ten best
reads by
the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Stanford's Russell Berman comments to Language Magazine
that studying
the languages make us better thinkers.

Professor Ian Morris receives a favorable review from the New York
Times
for his latest offering, 'Why the West Rules - for Now'.

Russell Berman, professor of German and of comparative literature
and
first vice president of the Modern Language Association of America,
comments on the latest MLA's survey of undergraduate study
of
foreign languages.

Russell Berman comments on declining enrollment in
foreign-language
graduate programs.

San Jose Mercury News, December 8, 2010

Alexander Huang, a current PhD student of Comparative Literature,
was
awarded the MLA's Scalione Prize. He will receive the award
at the
association's annual convention in Los Angeles on 7 January
2011. It
will be presented by the MLA's...

In an Op-Ed for The Daily, freshman Kristian Bailey talks about
how
Stanford"s Structured Liberal Education program has helped
him
examine the "big questions" like "what is
justice and
what does it mean to be just?"