Larry Wolff

Larry Wolff is the Julius Silver Professor of European History at NYU, the executive director of the NYU Remarque Institute, and the co-director of NYU Florence at Villa La Pietra.   His books include Inventing Eastern Europe:  The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (1994), Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (2001), The Idea of Galicia:  History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture (Stanford 2010), and The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage (2016).  His new book is Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe  (2020).  He writes regularly about opera, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.