Anthony Marra, lecturer in English, is among the winners of the Anisfield-Wolf awards for his novel “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena."

Stanford professor of American History Albert Camarillo believes differences in education and social-class levels drive the Asian-Latino disparity when it comes to signing up for insurance under the new healthcare law.

Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Franco Moretti's latest collection of essays, "Distant Reading" is reviewed and contextualized in a larger discussion about the digital, big data generated by literary criticism.

NoViolet Bulawayo, a Wallace Stegner Fellow, is this year’s winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for her novel “We Need New Names.”

Stanford historian Robert Proctor discusses his expertise in agnotology, the study of the cultural production of ignorance. 

English Professor Nicholas Jenkins comments on two new joint majors Stanford will offer in the fall. 

In "The Nation" Stanford scholar Cécile Alduy says Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's National Front party, "cleverly rebranded her father’s party, cloaking its far-right agenda with liberal rhetoric."

Londa Schiebinger, professor of the history of science, argues that failing to acknowledge sex differences can have costly and even lethal consequences.

Religious Studies scholar Kara Downey argues that in post-Soviet Central Asia a secular government does not guarantee religious freedom.

Damon Horowitz, Google’s in-house philosopher, earned his PhD in philosophy at Stanford. As Horowitz demonstrates, degrees like his are valuable in the tech sector where some of the most successful tech entrepreneurs and innovators come from a philosophy background.

The story quotes Franco Moretti, professor of comparative literature and of English, and director of the Stanford Literary Lab, on world literature as a “problem,” rather than an “object”; his book “Distant Reading” is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism.