• Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with joint appointment in the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, and an affiliation with the Critical Media Practice program in Art, Film, and Visual Studies.
• Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, 2022-2025; Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 2020-2021.
• Faculty co-director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, 2012-.
• Founder, faculty director, principal metaLAB(at)Harvard: 2011-.

employment (past)

• 1998-2011: Rosina Pierotti Chair in Italian Literature, Stanford University.
• 1993-1998: Full Professor of French & Italian (2/3); Full Professor of Comparative Literature (1/3), Stanford University. Affiliated with Modern Thought and Literature, and the Department of German.
• 1985-1993: Associate Professor of French & Italian, and Comparative Literature, Stanford University.
• 1983-1985: Assistant Professor of French and Italian Literature, Dartmouth College.

• Research Fellow, “Temporal Communities” Cluster of Excellence, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, May 2022.
• summer 2018: Faculty Member, European Cultural Center of Delphi, Delphi, Greece.
• 2012-: Faculty co-director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.
• 2009-2011: Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.
• 2010-2011: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Romance Literatures and Languages and Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
• 2009-2010: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Comparative Literature and Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
• 2009-2011: Faculty Affiliate, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
• 2008-2009: Visiting Mellon Professor in Digital Humanities, UCLA.
• 2006-2011: Researcher, European Forum, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.
• Spring 2003: Visiting Professor, Università degli Studi di Milano (dipartimento di storia) and Università IULM (letterature comparate), Milan, Italy.
• Fall 2002: UERJ/PUC Visiting Professor, Center for Literary Studies, Pós-Graduaçâo em Letras, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, and Departamento de Letras, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Spring 2002: Visiting Professor, Università IULM, Milan, Italy.
• Spring 2001: Visiting Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley.
• Winter 1999: Walker-Ames Professor, University of Washington, Seattle.
• Summer 1997: Visiting Professor, Departamento de Letras, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Winter 1995: Visiting Professor, Scuola di Dottorato, Dipartimento di Filosofia del Linguaggio, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy.
• Summer 1995: Visiting Professor, Pós-Graduaçâo em Letras, Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Winter 1992: Visiting Professor of Italian, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Summer 1991: Visiting Professor of Italian, University of Pennsylvania/Bryn Mawr Program in Florence.
• Fall 1986: Visiting Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell University.