Roland Greene
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Roland Greene is a scholar of the early modern literature and culture of England, Latin Europe, and the colonial Americas; and of poetry and poetics from the sixteenth century to the present. He is the Mark Pigott OBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University
.
A graduate of Fairfax High School (Los Angeles)
, Greene studied at Brown University
and Princeton University
, and began his professorial career at Harvard University
, where he was an Assistant and Associate Professor from 1984 to 1992. He served for six years as the Director of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon
, where he was Professor of Comparative Literature and English. He joined Stanford in 2001, and in 2002 was appointed Head of the reconstituted Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. He continued in that role until 2010.
He is the author of Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence (1991), a study of fundamental issues in lyric poetics from Francis Petrarch's fourteenth-century Canzoniere to the late twentieth-century poetry of the Chilean Pablo Neruda and the Peruvian Martín Adán; and of Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas (1999), which explores the social and political implications of love poetry in the first decades after the Columbian and Brazilian enterprises in the New World. He is the author of many articles on early modern literature, especially poetry.
Greene is the Director of Arcade, a digital salon concerned with literature and humanities.
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
.
A graduate of Fairfax High School (Los Angeles)
Fairfax High School (Los Angeles)
Fairfax High School is a Los Angeles Unified School District high school located in Los Angeles, USA, near the border of West Hollywood in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles...
, Greene studied at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
and Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, and began his professorial career at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, where he was an Assistant and Associate Professor from 1984 to 1992. He served for six years as the Director of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon
University of Oregon
-Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...
, where he was Professor of Comparative Literature and English. He joined Stanford in 2001, and in 2002 was appointed Head of the reconstituted Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. He continued in that role until 2010.
He is the author of Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence (1991), a study of fundamental issues in lyric poetics from Francis Petrarch's fourteenth-century Canzoniere to the late twentieth-century poetry of the Chilean Pablo Neruda and the Peruvian Martín Adán; and of Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas (1999), which explores the social and political implications of love poetry in the first decades after the Columbian and Brazilian enterprises in the New World. He is the author of many articles on early modern literature, especially poetry.
Greene is the Director of Arcade, a digital salon concerned with literature and humanities.
External links
- Networking Humanities-Style http://humanexperience.stanford.edu/arcade
- Arcade Traces the Life Cycle of Ideas http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/march/humanities-arcade-website-032210.html