Roland Greene, Professor Primary Office: 260-109/460-303 At Stanford Since: 2001 Email: rgreene@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Poetics Degrees: A.B., Brown University, 1979 Ph.D., Princeton University, 1985 Titles: Professor of English and Comparative Literature Head of the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages |
Roland Greene's research and teaching are principally concerned with the early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world. His most recent book is Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas (Chicago, 1999), which follows the love poetry of the Renaissance into fresh political and colonial contexts in the New World. He is also the author of Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence (Princeton, 1991), and the editor with Elizabeth Fowler of The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World (Cambridge, 1997). His recent essays deal with topics such as the colonial baroque, Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene and Amoretti, Sir Thomas Wyatt's poetry, and Shakespeare's The Tempest. He is now at work on a book about the early modern cultural semantics of five words: blood, invention, language, resistance, and world. Greene is also interested in the literary and cultural expressions of contemporary Latinity, especially Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban-American poetry and other writings as well as their counterparts in Latin America; in modern and contemporary poetry, especially the experimental traditions of the Americas; and in the problems and opportunities of comparative literature. He is the general editor of a series of critical volumes published by the Modern Language Association, entitled World Literatures Reimagined; the latest volume in the series, Azade Seyhan's book on Turkish literature, appeared in November of 2008. At Stanford Greene is co-chair and founder of three research workshops in which most of his Ph.D. students participate. Renaissances brings together early modernists from the Bay Area to discuss work in progress, while the Poetics Workshop provides a venue for innovative scholarship in the broad field of international and historical poetics. A third research group, on Transamerican Studies, began its work in the autumn of 2009. A native of Los Angeles, Greene has taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Oregon, where for six years he was director of the Program in Comparative Literature. He has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Danforth Foundation, among others. He is past president of the International Spenser Society, and from 1999 to 2002 served on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association of America. For information about his past and future courses, publications, conference papers and invited lectures, and professional activities, see Professor Greene's page in the Department of Comparative Literature. |
